The “God Bless The USA Bible” costs about sixty dollars. (It is only 59.99, but you can no longer buy a gumball with a penny.) But what if you want one in…
Author: Fatca Pop
Fatca Pop is a dreamer, adventurer, cook, and blogger. Fatca was a hairdresser, company secretary, and teacher.
Pharmacy museum now open
Okay, so the Pharmacy Museum in Cluj was open before Valentine’s Day. But we didn’t visit until recently. Ever since 2020, the old house of George Hintz had been closed, and it…
All Lives Matter (poem)
All Lives Matter, an original poem for 2024:
Fruit travelling further, creating higher CO2 and nitrogen footprints
Over most of the past three years, citrus fruits in Cluj were mainly from Spain. Your zucchini might have been from Italy. Pears could be locally grown. Carrots might be from Romania,…
Palestine demonstration in piata unirii
13 January, 2023. At 2 pm today, in a march starting from the main square in Cluj, you might have heard chanting in Romanian and English. In English, they said, “Free, free…
Words and lemmas
What is a word? Well, I used four words to ask that question, right? But people who create spaced-repetition apps, and create word frequency lists, to learn languages don’t understand what a…
Are two major Romanian newspapers on strike?
I bought a copy of Libertatea last Saturday and noticed something. About half the paper seemed to be dedicated to Sudoku games and things that were even less newsworthy than Sudoku. Now,…
Romanian vocabulary for biblical reading (B2-C1 level) 2 Corinthians
by Fatca Pop 25 September, 2023 If you can read to B2 level, you still may have trouble understanding the Cornelescu or Romanian Orthodox Bibles. Some of the words in them are…
Don’t be scammed by electricity “renewals”
Every city in the world has its scammers, con artists, crooks, or as you say in Romanian, escrocii, înșelatori, șarlatani. , In your own city, you are probably used to the uniforms…
Tomorrow is European Day without a car
22 of September is the European Day without a car. In Brussels, it was one of the most exciting days of the year. You could rollerblade across what were normally busy streets,…