The weather became warmer and it was a sunny day. Originally, I will be going to one of the universities to help Vladimir to stick more posters to AIESEC recruitment. But before I went out, another AIESECer, who was called Irina, came to the hostel and took us to have lunch somewhere in city. So, I joined them.
I was a tour guide, as described by Irina, since I knew what exactly we were going to. Even more surprisingly, she didn’t know the way to the restaurant Anda and I went before, but I knew. LOL. This time I tried a meatball soup, which was served with green pepper. They tried a bean soup that was baked in bread, which was very nice. Another great thing was that there was a live music performance playing classical there, which was very cool.
Then we went to meet some AIESECers who were from the reception team in AIESEC Bucharest and the OCP of the World Citizenship Project. They loved the Chinese food and of course I can introduce more to them, though they didn’t know what ‘dim sum’ was. They taught me a bit Romanian, but obviously I was not a good language learner, I kept forgetting what they told me. I also showed them some Chinese words and Cantonese, and they found it very interesting.
With such a nice weather, we went to the large park by walking. It was also nice that we talked and chatted, having fun and so on during the walk. This was a bit confusing about Hong Kong and China when I shared with them. We even talked about the serious topics such as the problems existed in Romania and Hong Kong. Corruption was one of the problems she told me. The politicians were a bit wasting their time to win the election without really paying attention to the livelihood. They also cheated the election perhaps. But I was sad to tell Milena that we still did not have universal suffrage in Hong Kong. Besides, elderly was another issue they are facing. They are going to extend the retirement age to 70, which was quite unbelievable to me. Yet, luckily, the young generation was now more open-minded and connected to the world as the communist rule had been swiped out. They were more spontaneous now instead of following the order from above.
At around 6, we went to the national theatre because we were going to watch a Bulgarian drama. The play was called ‘Exile’ and it was famous according to our Bulgarian trainee. Though there was no English subtitle, I just want to experience something else here as the fare was quite cheap, which was only 20 HK dollars. It was quite an interesting that because I can only watch the body language of the actors, with a bit explanation by Nikolai. From this drama, I would see some characteristics of Bulgarians and they sang quite well. I was thinking that I would not have the same opportunity in my life to see a Bulgarian play in Romania at all. I should have enjoyed every moment in this journey before I start to miss it.
Today was really great because I like to talk with different people and make more friends.
Blue sky with clouds
Nikolai and me
Reception girls
Bulgarian play @National Theatre
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