By the way there is this project. "I can, You can, Let`s do more together". The action, most of the time, takes place in Str. Drumul Sabareni 47-53, sector 6, Bucuresti. The main actors are about 30 absolutely adorable boys, 2 mothers (mammy), 7 fathers (tati), one giant man with giant`s heart, who will do anything to make you feel fine, unless he doesn`t forget. Then there is one blondie, who is a monster in Martisoaras (the Romanian thing), pool and, God knows, where else. That`s our coordinator. One more personage worth mentioning, who also appears on the stage of Forum Theatre (if you don`t know what it, is just find out), is our mentor, who sometimes (most of the times:) "needs mentoring himself". And when these two get together..Their jokes and laughs can be so painful, you can get cramps in your stomach. Ai, I almost forgot 7 characters, who call themselfs volunteers. Sometimes they are totally fine, but sometimes they might seem to be lost in space or going around it. When they are not moving around the furnitures and changing the rooms or taking the walk in "Carrefour", they are playing with the boys. For example, there is the game called "kirka" - you put a kid on your shoulders and run around till he hits his head on some corner. Game over. Or you can just lay on the sofa all together and enjoy Hannah Montana. And there is always work in the kitchen. Crying about chopped onions, making sandwitches for the kids and drinking juice of beetroots. They also are involved in Forum Theatre, showing the discrimination of institutionalized children to the society, although the only discrimination I`ve seen is here - in the souls of the kids. They have an opressor inside them and this is their own struggle. So we are here for that. And this is the hardest and at the same time the most wonderful thing about this project. There are days when these kids make me happy. It`s enough when a little boy says to you: "You are beautiful.", sleeping on your belly, while you`re watching a movie. But then there are days when everything is too much and you wish to escape. But if you quit, you will never know what could have happened and how it could have ended. And besides there are so many things we can teach to these kids and there are so many things we can learn from them.
And moreover spring is on its way.
So I decided to stay.
Lelde.
