2006/06/23

D10 - Kishinev


20JUN - Day10 - Kishinev - Km1434
Chisinau es el nom romanes i Kishinev el nom rus de la capital de la Republica de Moldavia. Pais poc conegut i un dels mes pobres d'Europa. Amb 4.5 milions d'habitants i sense sortida la mar. 3 llengues son oficials, el moldau (basicament romanes escrit en lletres llatines), rus (cirilic) i gagauz (dialecte turc que es parla al sud del pais i que tambe te una escriptura especial). A Chisinau la majoria de cartells estan escrits en rus i en moldau.
A les 3 de la tarda quedo amb Olesea (21), parla molt be l'angles i una mica d'espanyol, li agradaria poder viatjar i vol que li expliqui les meves aventures, parlem de la situacio politica i economica de Moldavia. M'explica que un dels problemes mes grans es el trafic de noies moldaves a paisos de l'Europa Occidental i a Turquia. Passegem pel centre de la ciutat i visitem una catedral ortodoxa, el parlament i el parc del centre de la ciutat, creuat pel carrer principal que rep el nom de Stefan Cel Mare, rei de Moldavia del segle XV, contemporani i amic de Vlad III Dracula de Transilvania.
Truco a Svetlana per posar-nos d'acord per el curs de rus. Vol 6 dolars per hora, una mica car per Moldavia pero accepto 2h al vespre cada dia comencant dema dimecres.
Kishinev in russian, Chisinau in romanian, is the capital of the Republic of Moldova, a landlocked country with 4.5 million inhabitants. One of the poorest and most unknown countries in Europe. Visa is still required for EU citizens, althought they are talking about releasing it from summer 2007. Nowadays tourists can enter without visa during 3 weeks in autumn for the wine festivals. The official language is moldovan, basically the same as romanian, russian and gagauz (a turkish dialect spoken in the southern part of the country).
In the afternoon I meet Olesea (21), she speaks very good english. We walk around the city and talk about religion and politics of the country. She explains me the problem with trafficking human beings, specially young girls to Turkey and western Europe.
In the evening I call Svetlana, she will be my russian language teacher, she wants 6USD for 45 minute lesson, this is very expensive for Moldova, we arrange 2 lessons every evening in my appartment starting tomorrow. I found her through Marisha www.marisha.net

posted by budapest2beijing at 15:56