I used to live here ....

I came to the UK in September 2007 looking for a better life and better prospective for my future. I left behind my friends and my then boyfriend and it was probably one of the best things I have ever done. I love it here! This is now my home and I would never go back to my home country of Romania.

I do miss it though! I go every year to see my friends and my nana and grandad. I also love the beaches, weather and just being careless and only worrying about who to see first or what to do with my day. When I come home is back to normality, work,bills,etc etc. This is where I come from:

Is a beautiful country ran by the wrong people,communism is still in people's blood and bribery is the way forward! Is bad and I am happy my child is not raised in this country. I am happy that my child can go on holiday there and love it without knowing the bad things about it.

This is the town I used to live in and where we have a nice house overlooking the sea:

I think people are generally happy in hotter countries and is the same with Romania.In summer everyone is happy compared to here where everyone is just miserable about the weather. Is just never good enough,if is sunny then is too hot and you get sunburnt. If is raining is a tragedy!!

Anyway,going back to where I'm from... I never really got sad about it until this year because I can't go to Romania with the baby coming soon. Call me selfish and a horrible mother but I am jealous of my friends who are getting ready to go to the beach or to the clubs :( I know that I have the best to come and they will all get to do what I'm doing : shop for nappies, sort out nursery,buy a house, stuff like that. Today we went to look for a car as well, proper grown up! We need a bigger car as mine is a 3 door and with baby and a pram to put in is not easy so we need a bigger car.

So basically in the next month or so I will not work anymore, we will have a different house, a different car and a baby!!! How mad is that?? I can't help but think: have I rushed to do all this at 24??? I don't know...

Tomorrow is Easter in Romania and everyone is getting excited about it. Easter there has the same importance as Christmas so the family get together and celebrate with painted eggs and sweet breads.

I miss that too! I want my child to grow up and know about it and get excited about it like I used to. Here it seems to be like any other day and that makes me sad. We agreed that next year we will celebrate Easter Romanian style so the baby gets brought up with both traditions, Christmas this year English style and Easter Romanian style.I'm excited :)