MY LIFE

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What motivates people to change?

I think that primarily the duty and constraint motivates people to change. Especially when we talk about change in social life. People change workplaces if they are offered a better one, or if they need to find another one. They are willing even to move to a different town, country. They are also willing to move if this brings change in their personal life, for example a new love. I would say that everyone can be motivated to change in one way or the other. The problem is that in most of these people’s life these motivations are external. Only few people are willing to change because it comes from inside, because its what they really want. People are afraid to change, because they think negative. They are afraid of the “what if” question? What if it goes wrong? What if I fail? …..so many “what if”-s instead of thinking that a change always brings something new in our life which might be good…..not necessarily bad.

What are the Romanians like?

Well…I have both positive and negative opinion about Romanians. I live in Romania so I have a subjective point of view.
Romanian people are friendly, open minded; the women here are very beautiful. I would say that more or less everyone, especially the younger generation speaks English or another foreign language.
The negative thing in Romanians is that they don’t really know how to behave in official places or in foreign countries and those few persons make a bad stereotype on the other Romanians. Romanians like to show off, no matter if they are poor, they buy expensive cars, go to expensive trips and buy expensive things just to show “what they don’t have”.

My most valuable photo

I took these pictures last year when I went to Vienna. It was a short trip but a really important one especially for me. When I was a young girl, I loved to watch old movies or historical movies. I liked the ones with Elisabeth of Bavaria, who was the Empress of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary. She was the spouse of Franz Joseph I. She was really beautiful, and the movie scenes were filmed in Vienna, in these places. While I was walking on the streets of the capital, or in the huge gardens of the palaces, I felt like a princess. I imagined the scenes that I have seen in my childhood. Being in those palaces, seeing everything that once was her, walking on the same stairs and halls made me feel very happy.

Movie endorsement

It is a movie that marked me forever. 7 Pounds is a beautifully written and directed movie! Its title is a mystery. Until you don’t see the movie or you haven’t heard about it, you don’t know what to expect for.
The main character is Ben Thomas (Will Smith), who reading a text message while driving, causes a car crash in which seven people died: six strangers and his fiancée.
In a bid for redemption, Ben sets out to save the lives of seven good people. A year after the crash, having quit his job as an aerospace engineer, Ben donates a lung lobe to his brother. Six months later he donates part of his liver to a child services worker
named Holly. After that, he begins searching for more candidates to receive donations. He finds George a junior hockey coach, and donates a kidney to him, and donates bone marrow to a young boy.
Two weeks before he dies, he contacts Holly and asks if she knows anyone who deserves help. He chooses a mother of two children who has an abusive boyfriend, and gives them his house so they can hide from the man.
Another man he chooses is Ezra, a blind piano player. He then contacts Emily Posa a self-employed greeting card printer who has a heart condition and a rare blood type. They spend time together and he begins to fall in love with her and decides that as her condition has worsened he needs to make his donation.
In the motel room Ben (Will Smith) fills the bathtub with ice water to preserve his vital organs, climbs in, and commits suicide by pulling his box jellyfish into the water with him. His friend Dan acts as executor to ensure that his organs are donated to Emily and Ezra. Ezra Turner receives his corneas and Emily receives his heart.

Brand name

For this task I choose Merci chocolate.

I think there is a link between the product and the name. People usually give chocolate to others on special occasions or if they want to say thank you. The name is international, and Merci is the first gift chocolate with which to really say a special thank you. Though it is a German product, the name Merci comes from French language, meaning thank you. This name doesn’t have to be translated to Romanian language because thank you in Romanian means Mulţumesc, and its short version is Mersi, with “s” instead of “c”.