romanian easter

before i went home liana and liliane ( don't know if i wrote it right ) visited me for a couple of days, even if we only spent some time together in the evening, we had so more fun that i really hope we will see each other again soon.

my family celebrated easter one week later than in germany, after the orthodox religion. i was lucky enough to be home than.

i left germany on 13 april in the evening, after four days of 9 hours working. was already tired and had a start of a cold. was traveling all night to dortmund to reach the airport on time for my flight. i only remember how cold was in kassel in the big and ugly train station, and how i heard romanian language in hannover from a family that were traveling with me till cluj. i arrived cluj the next morning and my sister was waiting for me. i was so excited and happy that i didnt even feel tired. we arrived bacau and saw my parents the next day.


alexandra and ami


oanas and simonas birthday cake

romanian pasca


me and my sister


my plane back was 4 hours late, this meant i lost the train from dortmund and had to travel a lot more than expected to reach my small town here again. i was back on 25 april, after seeing enough drunk people in the train stations in germany. was very happy nevertheless to see the children again.

german easter

it is all about egs.. but a lot of egs
i offered myself to work for easter, to satisfy my curiosity of how people and most of all the organization here celebrates the most important holiday of the year.

we started with painting egs, easter cleaning, decorating the rooms, easter market- in kirchhain very similar to the christmas one; and cooking egs. saturday evening i left katinka preparing everything while the children were still sleeping. it reminded me of my mother in the easter saturday, always going to sleep late, till everything was ready for the big celebration.
sunday morning at 6 am some of the children and workers woke up everyone with the nice melody of "christ ist entstanden". in the easter day children searched for they easter nests, i was quite surprised to also find a nest with my name on it, the chocolate bunny and egs i got where quite happy to see romania very soon after the easter in germany.




on practicants day before easter we prepared the big celebration room and a special poem, which i wrote with magdalena on the paper we made the last month.

: du, der ueber uns ist,
du, der einer von uns ist,
du, der ist-
auch in uns;
dass alle dich sehen- auch in mir,
dass ich den weg bereite fuer dich,
dass ich danke fuer alles, was mir widerfuhr.
dass ich dabei nicht vergesse der anderen not.
behalte mich in deiner liebe,
so wie du willst, dass andere bleiben in der meinen.
moechte sich alles in diesem meinem wesen,
zu deiner ehre wenden,
und moechte ich nie verzweifeln.
denn ich bin unter deiner hand,
und alle kraft und guete sind in dir.-
gib mir einen reinen sinn- dass ich dich erblicke,
einen demuetigen sinn- dass ich dich hoere,
einen liebenden sinn- dass ich dir diene,
einen glaeubigen sinn- dass ich in dir bleibe.

dag hammarskjoeld.

katha's birthday

on 29th march there was a big celebration in fulda: katha's 10th anniversary.

in the evening she already unwrap few presents and after the children went to bed- the parents, au-pair and i spent some nice time listening to music and talking like in old times. the next day there were two big activities: one was karting and the second was t-shirts drawing.
here are fotos:


i remember how happy i used to be when my friends came to my birthday and my mother made the big cakes and all the presents... must have been a great day for the little princess there in fulda.