We just passed the new year, 2019 and we received a challenge, or even more, a contest! Another one of the series proposed by @anomadsoul and generously supported by @blocktrades. It's an opportunity that should not be missed, so my story goes about how I went through the new year!
One of the two million possible stories about the 2019 New Year's Eve in Bucharest, Romania!
My story, how and with whom I went in 2019. I have to warn it was one of the most common parties, in fact, it was not a party, nothing spectacular ... just life, as it happened. Still, I hope and I think my story will present you a bit of the customs and the way of celebrating the transition into the new year in this part of the world.
A constant and a characteristic of holidays and parties in Romania is food. Making a lot of food! Food and drink. Every time, Christmas and New Year means food and drink ... at home, at relatives, friends, restaurants or cottages. I remember youth, then parties meant more music, dancing and drinking, less food ... because it wasn't.
This year I celebrated with my wife and her sister. The kids grew up and went to parties, our friends, our few friends left the country or they preferred to stay home. So it's now that I have the most quiet end of the year since I remember.
Preparations
I like to stay home during the winter holidays. From convenience and because we get older. The unpleasant part of the home party, when you are the host, is that you have to make the necessary preparations.
Cleanliness!
Here my wife is at the forefront. Though not seen, I also had my share of ... action!
The food!
We chose to do something a little easier because will eat late at night.
Carrot and celery salad as well as boeuf salad. Here I worked the most because I had to put the vegetables on the chisels, cook them and cut them into small pieces. Meat the same.
Here I stopped, my wife continued, knows how to prepare better.
I put the chicken steak in the oven. Nothing easier!
I made more salads and other light meals because the Christmas table was very loaded with meat and can no longer eat so concentrated.
At the end of the preparations a coffee is obligatory. I hope to help resist sleeping as late as possible. In the past few years, the preparations have been long and tiring, and that's why at midnight I have been asleep.
A good friend who left the country for a holiday in Turkey (but wanted to be with us) sent us a gift basket. With champagne and fine wines. One way to be with us.
Well, slowly time passed, I finished preparations and ate less, much less than we prepared.
Well, slowly, time passed, we finished the preparations and a little, much less than I prepared. I really don't like to remember about food. Rest, that's what I needed. I sat down for a glass of wine and told about the year that was just lasting. There are good moments when you can make a balance. So I was able to appreciate what was the characteristic of this year for us and we realized with astonishment that it was a year when we were very busy!
That's how we realized it was a year that we've traveled a lot, we've been away from home for more than three months! Very much, we leave home at most two to three weeks a year. But there is an explanation, in 2018 the pension period started ...
The transition into the new year I did it quietly and calmly, even lazy, finally a little lazy. Champagne!
That's how the new year came over us. It always comes with hope for something better! It is good tonight to believe that it will.
We live in a very quiet neighborhood on the edge of a big city. Every year, this night of the new year, the neighborhood is invigorating. This is another habit here in Romania. I think it's the same way all over the world, yet I do not have confirmation and certainty. Everybody makes noise !!! A way to show the joy that they have come to pass in the new year.
Fireworks, firecrackers and many other
"noise-making devices": kids, wives, friends, dogs and cats ... everything !!!!!!
These noisy events actually announce the end of ... the beginning! In ten minutes everything is quiet and we all come to our homes. We go back to stories and watch TV. Not for long because the fatigue of the preparations amplified by the glasses of wine and champagne drink and the sleep comes to send us to bed.
This was a brief presentation of a way to celebrate the end of the old year and the transition to the new year. A way of celebration made by one of more than two million inhabitants of Bucharest, capital of Romania.
Probably it's typical for the older, 60 years old, as in our case. Normal and calm people. There are other examples of energetic celebrations, when the participants don't take into account age ... each is unique and manifests in the way it feels. I wanted to show this way, this was the way it happened this year. Who knows how it will be next year?
I wish everyone a Happy New Year! I wish you good health and beautiful life. Now is the time to become reality.
