Tips

Here are some advices that I have collected so far. Maybe it will be useful for the next generations. Of volunteers.

• If you and your mates (or perhaps just you:) are having fun on the bus, try to laugh as silent as possible, otherwise there is a chance you will be reproached by an unsatisfied face, who probably hasn`t laught for a quite long time.
• If you want to take a photo of a street kid in most cases you will hear him saying: "Money! Money!" For sure, they have been told to ask money when the tourists (or volunteers) want to take a photo of them. Anyway probably you should ask for permission before you want to take a photo of any kid.
• Be careful passing deep holes on the streets, because even if you haven`t intended to throw your phone in it, it can happen easily (ouh, yes:) and then you will find yourself diving in this hole in order to get your phone back. But all this process seems a lot easier if you have friends around you who cheer you up and take photos of you in this hole. It helps. Indeed.
• Even if you think you`re not afraid of dogs, it is more than possible that one night you meet one very angry or hungry (or both) dog or I should say - a wolf -  grinning his teeth at you. Well, you know, I don`t really have an exact advice in this case. Of course, you can pretend that you are about to pick up a rock or stick or you could just try to explain him that you have already suffered a lot in your life, perhaps he really believes in that, but it doesn`t work always, so - good luck!
• If you`re not attentive enough, cheking the menu in some restaurants, you might be quite shocked receiving the bill. The thing is that in some places they put the price of 100g and of course if you order pork, they will bring you the whole pork. So when you order, it`s better if you tell the waiter the exact amount of kilos. It will make your life easier.
• When you want to return to your bed at 5 a.m. with metro, you better make sure which line you chose. Because you don`t want to spend 2 hours running around all the possible metro stations and making the same mistakes over and over again. And you should know one more thing. If you press that bottom of the metro doors, it doesn`t always mean that the doors will open. And most of the times it happens early in the morning on weekends.
• If you have doubt about if you`re in the right project and in the right place, just look at the people around you and you will understand why are you there where you are.

To sum up or in conclusion, I have always been for making your own mistakes and not always listening in others` advices. (Probably that`s why I am here:) Because you can only experience things by trying on your own skin. Anyway - have a nice time in Romania!
Lelde.