Categories: phd, places, concerts
Tags: Sibiu, Romania, fieldwork, culture, weather
Date: 23 July 2007 19:40:16
I know I sound like a stuck record, but it really is boiling here. Fortunately lower temperatures are forecast for later this week, though I'm not sure I like the sound of the (and I quote, translated obviously) "violent storms, gales and even hail" that are set to accompany the drop in temperature. It's just one extreme or the other. I'm madly handwashing everything at the moment and hopefully it will all dry before the violent storms arrive.
The fireworks last night were a bit odd. I only caught the last 10 minutes of them, they were part of a stage show which featured dancers climbing ladders and men with no shirts posturing and looking anguished, to a soundtrack that was a cross between Jean Michel Jarre and expansive classical film music if you know what I mean. And then when it finished they started clearing the stage while playing excessively loud German heavy metal. Which made a bit of a change I suppose.
Tomorrow is my last full day here. I've finished all my Sibiu interviews, and have a couple at the end of the week once I've (temporarily) moved. I'll be back in Cluj for a couple of days, staying at the school, and have one interview there and one in the town where I used to live years ago when I was an English teacher (in an office which is in the same street as where I lived, so that will be a real trip down memory lane, I've not been there for 11 years!). Then on Saturday I get up at stupid o'clock to fly to Bucharest, then have an all-day wait there before flying to Moldova in the evening. After tomorrow I'm not sure what internet access will be like - I doubt I'll be lucky enough to have a good internet cafe like this 2 minutes from my flat any more, sadly. Depending on when the new people turn up to take over my little flat (they arrive the day I move out) I may have time to kill in the internet cafe on Wednesday before getting the bus, but I don't know. I wonder if I'll get twitchy if I can't use the internet so much.
Groan. It's *so* hot.