Summer Blog #MyTravel

Once my vacation is Spain finished my mindset of vacation was over. The idea of forgetting about scholar duty could not stay in my mind longer, since I was back at home. When I thought that my vacation was over, and that I had to go back to the scholar mindset, my parents told me that we were going on vacation to Romania to visit some family, and to end up the summer in the best way possible spending quality time with the family.

When my parents told me the new I was shocked since I had not been there for seven years, therefore my first though was that it would be pretty different than the way in which I remembered it. The idea was to visit the family and spend two weeks gathering with old friends who live far away from us, but my main motivation for the trip was to see how the city in which I was born had changed.

When we landed in Timisoara, Romania, the climatic conditions were drastically different to Abu Dhabi's climatic conditions. The air was fresh, and some humidity made up an amazing atmosphere in which, taking a walk, and hiking were activities that could be done placidly. Most of the city showed many old buildings with historical meaning, although some places were not well preserved as some of them were half rebuild and half restructured. On the other hand the city was full of vegetation, and parks, that give the city a contrast, between the urban side, and the natural side.

Finally, one of the small but important details that I could notice in this city, is how open is the attitude of the people of Romania to learn languages from outside to make the foreigners feel more comfortable, when visiting their country. This fact surprised me in some way, since it is a quality that not all the countries have. Comparing this attitude to the attitude of the Spanish citizens, and services, they are totally opposite, having an attitude of arrogance if the foreigner does not know their language.