A Collection of Firsts: Free time edition ✌💥

 A Collection of Firsts

(in Romania, of all places)

➵ Free time edition ☼

1. First time riding an electric scooter at 3 AM in Bucharest 🆘

...tipsy, unstable, but in good company. ✌

2. First time hitchhiking 👍 

Countless, countless adventures, stories, anecdotes, and all thanks to hitchhiking. Do it safely, when possible, but DO IT. It will teach you a lot about the true value of humanity, brotherhood, and cheap travel!

3. First time playing basketball in a school playground, regularly, with an enthusiastic group of friends! 🏀

4. First time attempting cooking and baking for fun 🍕 🍛 🍰 🍔 

especially thanks to the mushrooms' apartment love for tasty food! 

5. First time playing Dnd 🔮 

with a group of friends, led by our irreplaceable Dungeon Master Juanca. This has been such a great experience, I love my party and shooting the s**t with them is amazing. If you're a bit of a nerd inside, I encourage you to embark on a DnD adventure, you will definitely not regret it! 

6. First time playing Tichu 🃏 

This game literally got us through Quarantine! It's a bit convoluted, but once you understand how it works, I guarantee you will not be able to stop playing it! 

7. First time sewing 😷  

Yes, we learned how to use an ancient sewing machine in order to make masks to distribute to locals here in Resita during the first wave of Covid-19 cases. No, we were not good at it. Still, it counts as an acquired skill, right? Right. 

8. First time getting a homemade tattoo 🙈  

We had the luck to get to know a young guy working in our office who is an amateur tattoo artist, and he gave us all matching mushroom tattoos. They are the cutest souvenir ever! I love the fact that I will carry my adored mushroom crew with me wherever I go, forever. It was a slightly terrifying experience because getting a tattoo done is always a delicate business, but we were all careful about keeping a hygienic environment and everything went smoothly. 

9. First time LARPing 🎭  

Life Action Role Play. If you haven't heard of it, go inform yourself right now! It's such a cool and creative way to spend time with your friends and act out different scenarios. Just try to keep the violence to a minimum, because it can get pretty wild...Once again, special thanks to Juanca, our resident king of nerds, for organizing an unforgettable LARP session for all of us! 

10. First time hosting a Podcast 🎤  

Yup, this one is still an ongoing process, but so far so good. It's been so much freaking fun to have a conversation with Gizem and Juan like we do so many times, with the only small difference of a pretty cool microphone sitting among us. Please give it a listen if you fancy it, it's pretty hilarious if you ask me. 

⚡ 🎧  🎈 Link to "Opa! A Volunteering Podcast" here <----- 

Thank you for bearing with me through another episode of 

my column "A Collection of Firsts". 

Please stay tuned for more to come suuuuper  🔜