Tuesday, August 28, 2007

  I am a lifelong city slicker and have had limited
exposure with the animal kingdom. There has
been the usual cats and dogs.
  Since my Peace Corps travels the exposure
has increased immensely.
  In Central America it was chickens, turkeys,
chuchos and chucas (half-starved dogs).
  Africa was cows, lizards, snakes, bats, frogs,
vultures, goats, sheep and monkeys.
  Here in Romania it has been, chickens, turkeys
and what is fast becoming my favorite ... geese.



  These guys reside in back of the house of
my next door neighbor.

  There was originally 4 but something ate
two of them when they were small.



  Now at night Bobbie, the neighbor's dog, stands
guard over them.



  What impresses me about these geese is that
they are personable. In fact they are really kind
of 'people geese'.
 Of all the other animals these are the only ones
that have had this trait.
  For you people who have had experience with
them, you know all this and more. For me it is 
like the Peace Corps has been ... a learning
experience.
  
  I am going to end this entry with the picture
below ... it speaks for itself.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

  I am still in Nădlac and it has been a slow summer since the
school closed for it's vacation. With the summer winding down
comes the yearly 'Zile de Nădlac' or Nădlac Days.
  The pictures you see were taken on Sunday, the last day of
the three day festival.



Parade arrives from the Mayor's office to the central park.



The town's only undertaker and his wife participates in
the procession. My brother-in-law does the same thing
and they both have the same sense of humor.



Opening ceremonies for Sunday's activities.



Musical group from Hungary ... they were really good.



Romanian vocal group but I don't where they're from.



One of many cultural dance troupes.

  We did do something this summer and that was to organize
a Rroma dance troupe from Nădlac. It took a little work and
a lot of patience but we did it.
  I have to mention that the mayor does support the dance
troupe. He enlisted the services of a part time choreographer
and also purchased the dance costumes.

Here are a couple of the dancers close up.



I don't know either ones' name, sorry.



  Below they are dancing and actually kind of rocking the
house. The troupe is new and could use a little more
experience.
  Despite that, they sure livened the place up. They were
dancing with a true 'joie de vive'.



So there you have it ... Nădlac Days 2007.