ioana
in quest for genuine
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- Name: ioana
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
I experiment with myself and the world around me. I always seek for that small sparkle of what's real and authentic in things, people, nature...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Sustainable shopping
The delicious loafing of my weekend brought memories back from the childhood days. I went to the market, a REAL market, not super-market, but the place where actual peasants come to sell their goodies to the avid urban population. Just as I finished my shopping and I was on the way home I started laughing. A sound, solid laughter, coming straight from my heart, for no apparent reason. And then I realized: I was feeling good, and I did have an apparent reason for this. I realized all the money I spent that morning was going into the pockets of hard working peasants, who probably got up at 4am to come at the market and sell their products. No more pouring my money in the pockets of some multinational super-market or cash and carry chain. This time, they were going to the right place!
I bought flowers from the gypsy girl at the corner of the street. She was clean and respectful and I liked that. I actually decide my buying mostly on the person I’m buying from, not based on the product. I prefer to take the tomatoes from the old lady than from the young gentlemen, and to take my fruits from the Transylvanian peasants rather than from the Bucharest small entrepreneur.
I bought flowers from the gypsy girl at the corner of the street. She was clean and respectful and I liked that. I actually decide my buying mostly on the person I’m buying from, not based on the product. I prefer to take the tomatoes from the old lady than from the young gentlemen, and to take my fruits from the Transylvanian peasants rather than from the Bucharest small entrepreneur.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Sister Eve
I can’t help being amazed of how beautiful women are! It is the creatures of all creatures for me – the woman.
As I come to work, I take the time in the subway to look at people, and mostly girls and women. I like to observe them, to steal and guess little bits of their lives. Most of the time I see tired faces, either is morning or evening, their eyes are looking down, they’re eyebrows are frowning. But every single day, I can discover beauty on the face and gestures of a woman.
Women who are beautiful with their delicate traits, small and fragile, like children, so fragile that you can imagine them breaking, but there they are standing straight. Women that are tall, slim, and androgyn, like a bamboo bending under the power of the wind, but not breaking.
The punker with the shaved head, but with the most lavish lips I ever saw. The business women in the stiff suit, but with the playful look in the corner of her eye. The cubby middle age housewife, with the grocery bag, and with the natural wisdom of the one who nurtures life.
I look at them: I know. They look at me: they know too! We embody all the contradictions of the woman, we need not prove our strength, our sensuality, or our wisdom. They are simply there, existing within us………
As I come to work, I take the time in the subway to look at people, and mostly girls and women. I like to observe them, to steal and guess little bits of their lives. Most of the time I see tired faces, either is morning or evening, their eyes are looking down, they’re eyebrows are frowning. But every single day, I can discover beauty on the face and gestures of a woman.
Women who are beautiful with their delicate traits, small and fragile, like children, so fragile that you can imagine them breaking, but there they are standing straight. Women that are tall, slim, and androgyn, like a bamboo bending under the power of the wind, but not breaking.
The punker with the shaved head, but with the most lavish lips I ever saw. The business women in the stiff suit, but with the playful look in the corner of her eye. The cubby middle age housewife, with the grocery bag, and with the natural wisdom of the one who nurtures life.
I look at them: I know. They look at me: they know too! We embody all the contradictions of the woman, we need not prove our strength, our sensuality, or our wisdom. They are simply there, existing within us………
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Heading for the future...
I had to give it some time before writing about the past, I had to feel it is truly past and not still the present. Now I've absorbed it into myself and made from it a small new part of my being. Because now I can say I finished my active involvement in aiesec….I can't call it alumnus, end of the aiesec experience or put a tag on it. I just know I am not active part of the organization anymore, as aiesec is not an active part of me anymore.
But it surely built some of my most beautiful memories, and some of my most important traits. There are only few experiences that help one define oneself, and above everything, this is what aiesec did for me: helped me know and master myself.
And I also gained some amazing friends and adventures these years! It makes me laugh just when I remember some of these dear dear moments: my first experience as OCP, the first time I ran for a position...and was not elected :), the first contract with 3 zeros I signed, the meetings we had in the IPM CC team, IPM 2005 itself, my election as MCVP, my MC team, IC in India, NPS 2005....it’s an ocean of moments, laughter, joy, people! I see faces, Geta, Salma, Oana, Gioni, Dani, Gabiza, Nori, Ana, Baby, Geani, Cez, Cosmo, Sebi, Georgi, Dragos, meetings, conferences, work, I still feel it so alive...
And for all these AIESEC, I thank you! All for all these and many more moments that you create even right now for the members, I am proud of you AIESEC!
While for the future, I am sure that though I’m walking a different path now, it will not be very far away from the people in aiesec. To quote from Antoine de Saint Exupery: As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it!
But it surely built some of my most beautiful memories, and some of my most important traits. There are only few experiences that help one define oneself, and above everything, this is what aiesec did for me: helped me know and master myself.
And I also gained some amazing friends and adventures these years! It makes me laugh just when I remember some of these dear dear moments: my first experience as OCP, the first time I ran for a position...and was not elected :), the first contract with 3 zeros I signed, the meetings we had in the IPM CC team, IPM 2005 itself, my election as MCVP, my MC team, IC in India, NPS 2005....it’s an ocean of moments, laughter, joy, people! I see faces, Geta, Salma, Oana, Gioni, Dani, Gabiza, Nori, Ana, Baby, Geani, Cez, Cosmo, Sebi, Georgi, Dragos, meetings, conferences, work, I still feel it so alive...
And for all these AIESEC, I thank you! All for all these and many more moments that you create even right now for the members, I am proud of you AIESEC!
While for the future, I am sure that though I’m walking a different path now, it will not be very far away from the people in aiesec. To quote from Antoine de Saint Exupery: As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it!