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Sunday, in the morning, after we had breakfast the remaining curageous LEOs in Suceava decided to visit the Suceava Fortress http://travel.webshots.com/album/366506567XjRHFY. The Fortress was built sometimes during the reign of Petru I Musat (1375-1391) and if you look at it from the outside seems amazing through it’s greatness and well preserved walls. Actually, the walls have been reconditioned by the Suceava County Council. When you step inside the walls of the, once great, fortress you are welcomed by a lot of muddy paths, piles of garbage in the castle chambers and nothing else. I mean, you can see above the chambers, what they were in their period, but that’s it. No furniture, no sculpture, no carpets, no paintings, not even some decorative cheap stuff you could find in every romanian bazar. This is the problem in my beloved country, and I mean it when I say beloved, it’s not ironically said, the problem as I was saying is that we are not capable of cherishing our touristic values. But let me stick to the story.
What else is worth mentioning is that the Petru Rares Highschool is the third best highschool in Romania, and this I also found out from my LEO friends in Suceava.
The trip back with the Hungeeeeeeer train (Iasi-Timisoara) was worse than when we came to Suceava. The guy who was sharing the compartiment with us was already asleep when we got on the train so we couldn’t do much noise. At least we slept through almost all the night….14 hours by train is still really, really painfull if you ask me.
After the long sleep we had after our first night, we met with our good friends from LEO Alba Iulia Fortress who arrived around 12:30 PM. Everybody was enjoying themselves, thinking of the long and hard hours waiting for us at the official meeting. Mihai and Crina, our LEO collegues from Alba Iulia, developed a very carachteristic laughing style. It was impossible for the rest of us, not to laugh, hearing the two of them 
The Council Meeting lasted somewhere between 5 to 6 hours. We discussed as usually our same old problems, the enthusiastic LEOs who didn’t attend the LENS seminar and weren’t ashamed, like me for example, that we didn’t stick to our LEO work agenda, tried to convince us, once again, that we have problems there, there and there. Personally, I am bored already just to be shown where the problem lies. It would be interesting if at least one person would come and say: “Guys, I’ve noticed this problem and I’ve fixed it. Let me tell you how I did that.” Anyway, this is a romanian attribute, we always see the problems but we seldom try to fix them. We also discussed about the upcoming LEF 2011, about the above mentioned LENS strategy seminar, about each clubs projects, about the candidates for the President, VP and VP2 functions. Also the ILO position is becoming available this summer, my good friend Agi is finishing her 3 year mandate. The person applying for the job is… me we’ll find out in June if the others think this is a good idea.
After the meeting, we ate at the Polaris Hotel where some things are great to eat (spaghetti bolognese, grilled chicken breast, chicken soup) but others are crappy (tortellini quatro formaggi, chicken gordon bleu). In the evening, our LEO friends from Suceava brought us to Colosseum Pub, a nice, roman style discotheque where, in my opinion, they should change the DJ. There was an amalgam of musical styles, which most of us didn’t quite dig.
Ok, I’m writing when I’m back @ the hotel not back home. I am really pleased of my first day here in Suceava.
Polaris Hotel, where we are staying, is quite cozy. you can sleep here like a baby in his craddle. The hotel is situated in the Suceava suburbs, at the entrance of Scheia village, a very quite and peaceful area. The only disadvantage is the fact that you can get in Suceava only by car, being a little far from the town centre.
In the morning we went to Iulius Mall, the largest in the moldavian area, at least that’s what the locals told us. The internet connexion was excellent, much better than the one in Iulius Mall Timisoara. It is true that there were less people around.
We also visited the town center by foot. The buildings are a little comunist if you ask me. But hey, at least it’s quite clean. The Museum of History was surprising, there are many artifacts starting from the early geto-dacic civilization of Cucuteni and Hamangia, through the bronze age, medieval period, and the II World Wars, to name just some of the periods presented. Most surprinsigly for me was the painting section where I could find paintings by Corneliu Baba, Theodor Palady and Nicolae Tonitza.
If you ever go to Suceava I wormly recommand the Latino and Padrino restaurants. The food is excellent, prices a little expensive, but manageable. Padrino is also kind of a disco, the atmoshpere was 
:D:D:D like that last night I don’t remember everything from last night, probably because of the Sauvignon Blanc of Jidvei we had. Great white, dry wine with a fruity aroma.
That was it for day one. We’ll see what happens next
I’ve arrived in Suceava at 7:30 AM today, after 14 long and hard hours on the Timisoara-Iasi train (known in Romania as “The Hunger”). Surprisingly, the train was clean, the bathroom also and I also managed to get a good, nice sleep. Right before you enter Suceava on the railroad you can see a nice set of houses made out of every possible material, and a pityfull river surrounded by piles of garbage. This is a sad image, but unfortunately very real in our country. Probably, I’ll get to see the nice part of Suceava in the next couple of days. I’ll be back when I’m back home.
I am preparing to attend the LEO National Council Meeting at Suceva, this weekend. Don’t understand why we are so few atteding it…
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