Download - EoE Survival Guide 2014
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CLUJ-NAPOCA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
For the biological and psysiological needs
Food ............................................................................................................................................................4
Liquids ............................................................................................................................................................5
Shelter ...........................................................................................................................................................6
Warmth ............................................................................................................................................................7
For the safety feeling of knowing your way around
Where are you going to stay
Romania scale ......................................................................8
Cluj Napoca scale ..........................................................10
How to get here
To Cluj Napoca...................................................................12
To the campus...................................................................14
Currency and prices ..............................................................................................................................................15
What to bring ..............................................................................................................................................................16
Important phone numbers, links, contacts ......................................................................................18
For the social needs
BEST Cluj Napoca ....................................................................................................................................................19
Communication (Phrasebook) .......................................................................................................................20
For Self esteem and self actualization .....................................................................................................................21
To do list .............................................................................................................................................................................................22
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FOOD
The local dishes are the delicious:
sarmale
mamaliga
friptura (steak)
salata boef (finely chopped cooked veggies and meat salad, usually topped with mayo and decorated with tomatoes and parsley)
zacusca (a yummy, rich salsa-like dip produced in the fall)
ciorba de burta (white sour tripe soup)
ciorba taraneasca (a red sour soup, akin to bors without the beet root and using instead fermented wheat bran, with lots of vegetables).
Traditional desserts include pasca (a chocolate or cheese pie produced only after Easter)
saratele (salty sticks)
cozonac (a special cake bread baked for Christmas or Easter).
bread (without butter) comes with almost every meal and dill is quite common as a flavoring.
garlic is omnipresent, both raw, and in special sauces (mujdei is the traditional sauce, made of garlic, olive oil and spices)
Generally, there is good street food, including
covrigi (hot pretzels)
langosi (hot dough filled with cheese),
gogosi (donut-like dough, coated with fine sugar thin pancakes filled with anything from chocolate and jam to bananas and ice cream.
Very popular are kebab and shaorma (shaorma), served in many small shops.
BUT!
You will get breakfast and two other meals a day. These will mainly be provided by your
organisers. If you have any special diet or if youre vegetarian, send an e-mail to the organisers
and well take this into account.
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LIQUIDS
Romania has a long tradition of making wine (more than
2000 years of wine-making are recorded), Its quality is very good
and the price is reasonably cheap: expect to pay 10-30 RON for a
bottle of Romanian wine (about 3 - 8.5). Anywhere you want to buy it, it is sold only in bottles of about 75 cl.
Like all the countries with a strong Latin background, Romania has
a long and diffused tradition of brewing beer. Ursus produces
tasteful beers. Ursus Black, is a strong fruity sweet beer, similar
to a dark Czech beer. Silva produces bitter beers, both its Silva
original pils and its Silva dark leave a bitter aftertaste in your
mouth. Bergenbier and Timisoreana are quite good also. You can also
find Heineken, Tuborg, Peroni and so on.
The strongest alcohol is palinca, with roughly 60 percent
pure alcohol A Transylvanian speciality is the 75 percent
blueberry and sweet cherry palinca, which is called visinata.
Water and other internationally known
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SHELTERYou will sleep, in general, at Observator Campus, which looks
something like this. Here you have a dormitory building
There are rooms with 4 beds, with a small bathroom. like this one
...or under the clear starry sky, if you feel the need to! (Tip: falling asleep under the sky seen from
the Apuseni Mountains, which you will get to see, is amazing! )
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WARMTH We present you:
....and the love of our people and organisers!
Romania has temperate
continental climate characterized
by hot summers and cold winters.
In Cluj Napoca, during summer,
there are gradually rising daily
high temperatures, with daily
highs around 25C but keep in mind that temperatures
sometimes reach 35 C to nearly 40 C in mid-summer in the city centre. Daily low temperatures are
around 14C.
Although average precipitation and
humidity during summer is low,
there are infrequent yet heavy
and often violent storms. Stay
warm and wear a raincoat!
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ROMANIARomania is situated in the southeastern part of Central Europe and shares borders with Hungary
to the northwest, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, the Black Sea to the southeast,
Ukraine to the east and to the north and the Republic of Moldova to the east.
Official Name: Romania
Location: (Southeastern)
Central Europe
Time Zone: GMT + 2
Flag of Romania: Three vertical
stripes: blue, yellow and red.
Population: ~21,400,000 Official Language: Romanian
Currency: Romanian Leu
(In English Leu means Lion)
Capital: Bucharest (Bucuresti)
Electricity in Romania is 230 V
alternating at 50 Hz. If you
travel to Romania with a device
that does not accept 230 Volts
at 50 Hertz, you will need a
voltage converter.
Outlets in Romania generally
accept one type of plug: two
round pins.
Romania gave birth to some extraordinary scientists and
engineers, most of whom have actually changed the world. Some
of these include: Nicolae Constantin Paulescu discoverer of insulin; Eugen Pavel inventor of Hyper CD-ROM;Aurel Persu the first engineer and car designer to build a car with the wheels inside its aerodynamic line; Petrache
Poenaru inventor of fountain pen; Emil Racovita founder of biospeleology (the study of organisms living in caves); Anastase
Dragomir inventor of parachuted chair, an early version of todays ejection seat.
Furthermore, Romanian engineers have successfully contributed to
the history of flight. Henri Coanda, Traian Vuia and Aurel
Vlaicu they all played an important role as pioneers in aerodynamics and aviation.
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We have:
The statue of Decebalus, Europes largest rock sculpture (55 m high).
It is somewhere along the Danube, near the small city of Orsova,
in southwestern Romania.
The first city lit by electric street lamps in Continental Europe, Timisoara
Timisoara was also the first European city to introduce horse-drawn
trams, back in 1889.
The best-preserved Delta in Europe
7 UNESCO World Heritage sites
One of the happiest cemeteries on Earth
Europes second largest underground glacier, the Scarisoara glacier,
found underneath the Bihor Mountains in Romania. It has a
volume of 75,000 cubic meters and has existed for more than
3,500 years.
The Carpathian Mountains are home to one of the largest virgin
forests in Europe. 400 unique species of mammals, including the
Carpathian chamois, call the Carpathian Mountains home. 60% of European brown bear population lives in the Carpathian Mountains.
Romanian superstitions
If you break a mirror you will be the happy beneficiary of 7 years of bad luck
If a black cat crosses the road in front of you, you will have bad luck unless you walk 3 steps
behind
If your palm is itching it means that you will either receive some money or you will get beaten
If you stay in the corner of the table, you will never get married
If you leave leftovers in your plate then you will marry an ugly wife/husband (so you better like
the food were gonna give to you! )
If you have an itchy right foot, you will leave in a journey
If you drop the scissors, it means your boyfriend / girlfriend cheated you
A spoon dropped it is a sign that your lover must come
For having good luck the rest of the year, wear something new for Easter
If you bite your tongue while eating, is because you recently told a lie
Salt! This is another much debated item among superstitions. If you spill salt, you will have an
argument with someone. Salt thrown over your left shoulder will protect you from evil. If you
spill salt on a doorstep it will guard that house from evil spirits. Salty soup might mean that the
cook is in love. It is not good to lend salt, because you are giving your wealth away. Wealth you
might have, that is.
Never give a bouquet with an even number of flowers to someone. Those are for funeral
ceremonies or cemeteries.
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CLUJ NAPOCAthe second largest city in Romania
number of universities: 11
multicultural city aspires to be the European Capital of Culture in the year 2021.
will be in 2015
architecture is primarily:
Renaissance
Baroque
...and Gothic.
there are also some
Modern buildings
from the mid century.
famous botanical garden, with and nice garden stuff
the metropolitan area has a population of 411,379 people.
81.5% of the population of the city are ethnic Romanians, with the second largest ethnic group being the
Hungarians, who make up 16.4% of the population. The remainder is composed of Romani (1.1%), Germans (0.18%), Jews (0.05%) and others (0.7%). Basically they all look like this
hosts a visible population of students and other non-residentsan average of over 20,000 people each year.
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FACTS AND THEORIES
BOUT CLUJ Distances from Cluj to...
Bucharest: 1625000 books
Belgrade: 1635000 books
Budapest: 1775000 books
Paris: 8000000 books
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, United Kingdom: 10495000 books
Madrid: 11490000 books
Funafuti, Tuvalu: 75950000 books
It holds the first open-air museum in Romania, dating from 1929.The
most ancient objects exhibited there date from 1678. The park's
main collection is composed of:
13 traditional farms with some 90 buildings collected from several
transylvanian ethnographical regions
34 rural technical installations (mills...)
5 workshops
3 wooden churches and a wooden carved cemetery gate.
Cluj was probably the most turbulent and bustling medieval city of
Transylvania. While the population of the other cities in Transylvania
was composed mainly of Saxon colonists, generally considered
peaceful and homogeneous, Cluj was hospitable to noblemen, to
merchants and craftsmen and to a great number of adventurers
belonging to different social classes and nationalities.
It is the place where the first and biggest human QR Code in
Europe was made. Hundreds of people (each one being a pixel)
gathered in Unirii Square to crowdfund an animal shelter, altogether
with breaking a European record!
It is said that there is a network of catacombs under the city, that
link some churches and other important buildings, dating from
Medieval times. Some even say that theres a tunnel that links the
Saint Michael Church, the gothic monument from the main square in
Cluj Napoca to the Cetatuie hill.
In Medieval times the basements of the houses linked to the
streets had a hatch used for unloading the merchandises. Some
basements were extended under the streets, so as someone
walking in Castrum Clus (as it was firstly called), you couldve
woked up not on the street, but under it.
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HOW TO GET HERE
By plane:
Cluj Napoca International Airport (CLJ)
Address: Str. Traian Vuia 149
Tel: (264) 416.702
Email: [email protected]
www.airportcluj.ro
The airport is located at 4 km from the city centre. Taxis are the
easiest way to get around. Bus number # 8 runs from the airport to
Piata Mihai Viteazul in the centre of the city and bus number # 5 runs
from the airport to the railway station.
Airlines with service to Cluj Napoca:
Tarom - www.tarom.ro
Direct flights from/to: Romania (Bucharest, Constanta); Austria (Vienna);
Germany (Frankfurt); Italy (Bologna); Spain (Madrid); Switzerland
(Geneva, Zurich), but this company is not really a lowcost one.
WizzAir - www.wizzair.com
Direct flights from/to: France (Paris); Germany (Dortmund); Italy (Bologna,
Milan, Rome/Fiumicino, Venice); Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Parma de
Mallorca, Valencia); UK (London/Luton); Belgium (Bruxelles);The Netherlands
(Eindhoven)
RyanAir - www.ryanair.com
Another way to get here is by making a stop in Budapest, travelling with
RyanAir and then you can either take a WizzAir plane or use the other
means of transportation described below.
By train:
Romania has a well-developed railway network that covers virtually the
whole country. In case you want to visit Romania a bit before our
awesome Event, here are some details you might want to know:
Three different services are offered:
The cheapest and slowest are local the local trains - Regional ( R )
Faster and more expensive are the InterRegional trains ( IR )
that require a seat reservation along with the ticket.
The fastest and the most expensive are Inter-City Trains ( IC )
The last two types of trains have dining cars and sleepers
(overnight or long distance trains only).
For train enthusiasts: Romania has nine steam trains, dating from the
1920s and '30s, some of which have been restored to provide a luxury
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Cluj-Napoca Rail Station
Located about 2 kilometers north of the city center, it is situated on the CFR-Romanian Railways
Main Line 300 (Bucharest Oradea Romanian Western Border). CFR provides direct rail connections to all the major Romanian cities and to Budapest. The rail station is very well connected to all
parts of the city by the trams and buses of the local public transport company, RATUC.
www.mersultrenurilor.ro
www.infofer.ro
www.bahn.de
By car
Coordinates: 4646 N 2335 ECluj-Napoca is an important node in the European road network, being
on three different European routes (E60, E81 and E576). At a national
level, Cluj-Napoca is located on three different main national roads:
DN1, DN1C and DN1F.
Also, Cluj-Napoca can be reached by bus from Bucharest, major cities in
Romania, most cities in Transylvania, and a number of major cities in Europe.
Hitchhiking:
In Romania payment for the ride is often expected, although foreigners
often arent asked for anything. People expect to be paid for giving
a ride, but if you tell them in advance that you are unable to pay,
1 out of 2 will take you anyway.
When hitchhiking, its best to hold a sign with the name of the place
you want to go to.
By thought:
The safe way is to follow the car route, but as we encourage the
thinking out of the box mentality, there are no rules and traffic signs
while travelling like this. Just grab your brain or let it grab you and the two
of you come here.
Map of Romania's
Railways Network
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Taxis are the easiest way to get around and
they are not that expensive.
If you think about taking one, the address is:
Campus Observator (Observatory Campus).
Be sure the taxi-driver turns on the meter!!!
Bus number #8 runs from the airport to
Regionala CFR station in the center of the
city and then you can take bus number #35
from the Opera station to the station
Observator.
If you miss Regionala CFR Station you must
go to the Piata Mihai Viteazul station and
then take the bus number #35 from there.
The public transportation system runs
between 5:00am and 11:15pm.
Tickets must be purchased beforehand (4 Lei
two trips) and validated in the ticket-stamping
machine upon boarding.
BUT!!!This info is just for you to feel extra safe ;)
Were gonna wait for you wherever you land.
AIRPORT CAMPUS
Airport
Regionala CFR
Piata Mihai Viteazul
Piata Gariistation
(Railway station)
Opera station
Observatory Campus
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CURRENCY AND
PRICESThe currency of Romania is the leu - plural lei , also called RON
1 Euro is around 4,5 Romanian lei.
1 leu is divided into 100 bani.
coins: 5 bani, 10 bani, 50 bani
banknotes: 1 leu, 5 lei, 10 lei, 100 lei, 200 lei, 500 lei... and thats
already too much to be carried in one banknote :)
Credit card:
International credit cards like Visa and Master Card are accepted
in most shops, airline companies, hotels and restaurants.
Banks & Post offices:
On week days they are open from 08:00 till 19:00. On Saturdays
they are open from 08:00 till
15:00. On Sundays most of them are closed, but you can use
ATMs round the clock.
Prices:
Bus ticket (2 rides): 4 RON
Taxi: 2 RON/km
Beer (supermarket): 2-4 RON
Beer in a bar (0.5l): 4-7 RON
Wine(0.75l): 8-25 RON
Vodka (0.75l): 15-60 RON
Pizza: 15-25 RON
Mineral water (0.5l): 2-3 RON
Pack of cigarettes: 12-15 RON
Coffee: 4-6 RON
A loaf of bread: 2-3 RON
Chocolate: 3-6 RON
Icecream on a stick: 1-3 RON
Fruit and vegetables: cheap and tasty
Shaorma(street food): 8-12 RON
Covrig (Pretzel): 1-2 RON
Cinema ticket: 5-13 RON
Tampons: 8-12 RON
Condoms: 10 RON(3 pieces)
Entrance in a club: around 5 RON
Dancing with Mary or Jane: 60 RON/g
Small notebook: 2-5 RON
Your portrait made by local artists: 50 RON 15
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WHAT TO BRING
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The list:student ID (you may get discounts with it)
medical and general travel insurance
cellphone(and give us your number) and its charger
It could be useful to have this survival guide printed
pocket money: cash (lei), credit card
passport and/or visa, if required (check the expiration date before you leave!)
photo camera
a national recipe for the International Evening. You can bring any (special) ingredients and a
national drink (Alcoholic ones are preferred)
any party equipment or clothing our lovely organisers asked you to bring through mail
towel
a flag representing your country. It can be drawn on a piece of paper if you dont have one.
Improvise! :)
personal hygiene stuff: shower gel, soap, shampoo or whatever you use
personal medication (also against allergies)
sleeping bag
swimming suit (just in case)
a musical instrument, if you feel the need to play. We would be more than happy if so
slippers
clothes
if you have difficulties to sleep in noisy places: earplugs.
comfortable shoes
leisurewear (clothes that can get dirty always prove to be useful)
happy, happy, joy, joy
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CONTACTS AND LINKS
International call prefix: 0040 (+40)
Mobile phone numbers have a two digit code, regardless of the geographical area in which the user
resides. The first digit of the code is a seven, and the second one gives the network. For example,
72 and 73 is for for Vodafone; 74 and 75 for Orange. A sim card with a number and 5 euros costs
around 22 RON and there are good options with national and international minutes and SMS.
Important phone numbers:
Police
Ambulance
Fire brigade
Contacts
Torjo Nicolae
Main organizer of the EoE:
Mobile: 0040 728 589 867
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: Mannick1900
Andrei Popa
President of Local BEST Group
Cluj-Napoca
Mobile: 0040 746 110 891
E-mail: [email protected]
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Useful links:
www.wizzair.com
www.ryanair.com
www.infofer.ro
www.autogari.ro
www.bestcj.ro
www.google.com
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BEST CLUJ NAPOCA
Long story short, were all about
IMPROVMENT
and
FLEXIBILITYFRIENDSHIP
LEARNINGFUN
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Hello, goodbye, thank you and so on..
Hello. - "Salut."
Goodbye. PaHow are you? - "Ce mai faci?"
Thank you. - "Multumesc
Please - "Vreau!"
I'm sorry - Imi pare rau"
I'm hungry - will not be the case
Whats your name? Cum te cheama?Yes/No Da/Nu
Phrases we hope you wont need to use
Im sick Mi-e rauIwoke up in the woods M-am trezit la mama dracu
I needed a toilet, but now its too late Am facut pisu pe mine
Are we in Romania? Suntem in Romania?
Help! - "Ajutor!"
Im in a relationship - Plimba ursu
In restaurants, bars and shops
How much does that cost? Cat costa?Where is the toilet? Unde e buda?I want this Vreau astaCheers! Noroc!One beer O bereAnother one Inca una
On the street
Excuse me ScuzeWhat time is it? Cat e ceasul?I dont understand Nu intelegI dont speak Romanian Nu vorbesc romana
I dont know Nu stiuBus/Train/Aeroport Autobuz/ Tren/ Airoport
Where is ...? - Unde este...?
Random
I'm tired - "Cheful suge"
I'm sorry about last night - Mai Gheo, tu
chiar nu stii de gluma?
That happens sometimes, but I wasn't
upset with you, OK? - De putut, pot,
de vrut, vreau si de stiut, stiu dar nu vad
de ce atata graba
I Love you 404Youre cute just constantly stare and smile at him/her
Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot
wait until lunchtime! - Bat si fut ca
masina de cusut, Sir William.
Numbers
One - unu
Two - Doi
Three - Trei
COMMUNICATIONThe official language is Romanian, a Romance
language. Most educated people born after about
1970 will speak reasonably good English and will
likely be proficient in one or more second
Romance languages, Beyond that, as in any major
city, there will be a smattering of other languages.
But you have to be prepared for everything, so
heres to surviving like a pro:
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FOR SELF ESTEEM AND SELF
ACTUALIZATION...
We have joy
We have fun
We have B E E R S in the sun!
E D V E T
S U E G U
T C N A D
A T R E
T D N
I I T
O N S
N G
so... a flight! But first of all, dont be shy, just apply!
...even old Maslow says:
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TO DO:
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4
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find the 5 words!
P.S: each of
them
have at least 4
letters.
this free space is not here by mistake.
You can draw the person whos standing
next to you, or whatever that pops into
your funny
GOODIES FOR THE LONG TRIP
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BEST Cluj-Napoca awaits you!
23 July 2014-31 July 2014