Europe, is this you?

Moments like this I realize the main reason why I love school. It makes you think, search, discover, and after months of work and lazy habits I feel it's so damn refreshing. In case you didn't know, I'm still a student, in masters that is, but still it's school. So now, in my last year of master studies, I am preparing my last piece of paper, the final exam, the biggest of them all, the dissertation. Studies are in Romanian, in my home country and about communication in Europe mainly. So my smart ass decided to make a unique paper as final exam (hopefully last one in my early years), Islam in Europe (after so many months of living in an Islamic country that is) Cool books, interesting articles online, live impressions from my daily life, but most fascinating, one impressive documentary which I discovered today :D from my friend Anca, An Islamic history of Europe produced by BBC. I think the history lessons in primary school are to early for the young ones to understand, maybe that is why less and less of the students end up with all sort of lame jobs cause they don't really know what those teachers bla bla in front of them. I think that in order to understand these pieces of history, especially of such scale and so much information, one should physically go there are see it with own eyes. I think that the things that happen so long ago have a tremendous impact in some of the today's people, either Muslim or European or whichever and especially in out today lives, even though we do not even imagine so. I think Europe was right but I think Europe is sometimes wrong now and I think I made the best decision to write about this story, especially after living a piece of life in an Arab country. So to stop writing crap that no one understand probably :)) I'm going to tell you a little bit about this documentary, about our old world history lessons and then hopefully you'll be curious enough to watch it yourself. Islam's biggest impact in Europe happened in Spain with the invasion of vandals and Visigoths, ruling over the Latin country for more than 500 years, but bringing a great progress and a way of life called La convivencia,a time when Muslims, Christians and Jews were living together and building a prosper and equal life for their land, Andalusia. In same or not so much situations were Sicily and France, where the Muslims wisdom brought development from different points of view to the European life, until finally kicked out of their land by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Europe being taken over back by Christianity. Well enough about this cause I'm gonna spoil the fun and interest of seeing the documentary, even-though there are much more than the above to be discovered in the movie. So to end the post, Enjoy!

Romania te iubim, si ca tine vrem sa fim

Weeekendul trecut am participat la o conferinta numita Regional Training Seminar (RTS) unde 3 locale AIESEC (Timisoara, Arad si Oradea) au avut parte de sesiuni de pregatire atat personala cat si profesionala. Mi-a placut atat de mult conferinta si agenda incat am hotarat ca urmatoarele postari pe blog sa fie din ceea ce am invatat acolo.

Si am sa incep cu draga noastra Romania, o tara destul de mica din centrul Europei, cu o populatie de aproximativ 21 498 616 conform Wikipedia. Impresiile vizavi de tara noastra? Cat se poate de variate, dar parca toate iti lasa un gust amar. Ei bine dupa sesiunea numita "State of the world" din cadrul conferintei RTS, am observat cam la ce nivel se afla Romania comparativ cu restul lumii. Concluzia? OAAUUU!!! Stam mult mult mai bine decat credem si decat auzim pe la stiri toata ziua. Desigur daca stai sa cauti avem de toate: coruptie-CHECK, saracie-CHECK, poluare-CHECK. Daaar, ce ati spune daca va arat ca in ciuda tuturor acestor aspecte stam foarte bine....

















Recomand sa mariti imaginile si urmariti statutul din diverse puncte de vedere al Romaniei comparativ cu restul lumii. We rooockk!!!!




Va dati seama ca in ceea ce priveste resursele naturale, daca toate tarile ar trai cum traiesc americanii am avea nevoie de vreo 4 planete sa supravietuim, ca suntem printre tarile care polueaza cel mai putin din lume, ca suntem doar pe locul 72 in ceea ce priveste coruptia in lume (din totalul de 181)




Eu propun sa nu mai ascultam stirile alea cretine care ne baga cu capul in pamant ca suntem in vreun fel sau altul, capul sus, fruntea inainte si haideti macar sa ne mentinem pe locurile astea daca nu sa facem ceva sa ne imbunatatim situatia :)

3. Congresul Anatolia - mix cultural

Peste 250 de delegati, peste 30 de tari prezente in una din cele mai mari conferinte internationale din reteaua AIESEC. Ca sa intelegeti despre ce e vb, printre tarile prezente se numara: Pakistan, Algeria, Palestina, Senegal, Olanda, Mexic, Mineapolis-USA, Korea, China, Filipine, Malaezia, Egipt, Tunisia, UK, Romania, Bulgaria, Republica Ceha, Iran si multe altele.
Un sentiment unic m-a cuprins cand am realizat ca sunt intre atatea culturi diferite. E deosebit sa te trezesti dimineata si sa te pregatesti sa iei masa cu colegii din Korea si China, care asteptau cu nerabdare sa vina pranzul sa manance orez, sau sa te asezi in sesiuni langa colegii din Africa, unii mai prietenosi ca altii, sa dansezi ca nebuna pe roll call-ul celor din Mexic impreuna cu alte 10 tari si sa dansezi seara la petrecere impreuna cu cine stie ce alta cultura ca esti prea beat sa mai tii minte :))
Evenimentul numit Global Village a fost cel care ne-a adus pe toti fata in fata cu obiceiurile, mancarurile, portul fiecarei culturi. Unul intern doar pt noi (care s-a lasat cu baute urate si bai in psicina la 1 noaptea) si unul extern pentru turcii curiosi de multiculturalitate.


@ Pakistan


@ China

@ Mexic
@ Qatar

@ Palestina

@ Croatia

@ Tunisia

@ Senegal