Synaxis TV

• Snowboarding
  • Violetta made a mountain of sandwiches for us but they came in handy. It took us a while for us to get to the resort but luckily we weren’t one of the 15 accidents that happened that day on the road we used.
  • It took a while to get through the lines and then we had some training. We learned a crab walk of sorts and then practiced going down the hill with the board in horizontal position. It was quite fun.
  • We had another session on the big hill. The snow lift was pretty scary, mostly getting off, but it wasn’t that bad. We were out there for quite a while and I fell a lot trying to go down the hill. I learned that it probably would have helped to have practiced what we learned from the first session for a while.
• Violetta’s Home in Canada
  • Back at home Violetta told me about how at one point she had gone back to Romania and didn’t connect with the people there, partially because they were not polite. When she got back to Canada she felt like she was glad to be home and realized that a shift in what home meant to her had taken place.
  • She also talked a lot about how everyone was pumped up for being Romanian when they were growing up propagandistically but really the rest of the world didn’t know who they were. It was funny to hear about some of Iban’s experiences there so long ago, such as the Romanians showing him a refrigerator thinking he didn’t have such technology in Ecuador, and think about how iconoclastic it must have been for Violetta to date him.

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