UNIVERSITY

“UNIVERSITY BUILDING Y”

Translation: Raluca Ana Drăghiescu, Alexia Ioana Dumitrache & Tudor Silişte

After lunch the group kept climbing. Although

it was very hot, snow was everywhere. Mihai came

to help Camelia. Now, she seemed to trust only him.

He was a well-built man and Camelia was climbing

up grabbing his legs as thick as a tree. On the out

journey, she avoided to walk near Mihai. Gabi was a

bit jealous but didn’t want to upset her friend.

Camelia knew she was very beautiful. She had

thought of her colleague not to think it was a big

deal. But now she didn’t care anymore. She just

wanted to go back home. Up there, on the top of the

mountain, Maria, Liviu’s wife, had a nervous breakdown.

”Look what’s happened to us if we took beginners

with us.Tomorrow I shall have classes at

school at 8 o’clock and I’ll be late, if we do not

catch the first train at the Busteni Station. And I

have a board meeting as well.”

”It’s our fault,’’ said Mihai. ’’This road had

to have some ropes. For us, mountain climbers with

experience, it was easy. We did not think of the others

in the group. Next time we go we should be

more careful. Now, we’ve been lucky nothing bad

happened. I do not even want to think of what might

have happened.”

After staying half an hour outside in the

snow, directly after the sun light, Camelia had a hypothermic

shock and kept shivering for a couple of

minutes. The same happened to Roland... Probably it

was the shock after what had happened. Then they

immediately got over it, at Maria’s shouts: ”Let’s

move, fast.”

Camelia got over the road down the peak of

the mountain following Michael’s thick legs that she

caught shaking, desperate, as if it WERE the only

way through which she wouldn”t slip in any mysterious

mountains steep.

After lunch the group continued climbing.

Although it was very hot,snow was everywhere

around them. Mihai came to help Camelia. Now, it

seemed that she trusted only him. He was a wellbuilt

man and Camelia was climbing grabbing his

thick as tree trunk legs. On the out journey, she

avoided to walk near Mihai. Gabi was a bit jealous

and she didn”t want to upset her friend. Camelia

knew she was very beautiful. She had thought about

her colleague not to think it was a big deal. But now

she didn”t care anymore. She just wanted to reach

back home. Up, on the top of the mountain, Maria,

Liviu”s wife had a nervous breakdown.

”Look what happened to us because we took

begginers with us!

Tommorrow I will have classes at school, at 8

o”clock and I will be late, if we do not catch the first

train, the Busteni Station. And I have a board meeting

as well!”

”But it is our fault,said Mihai. This road was

due to be with ropes.

For us, mountain climbers with experience, it

was easy. We did not think about the others in the

group. Next time we go we should be more careful.

Now, we were lucky nothing bad happened. I

do not even want to think about what might happened.”

After staying half an hour outside in the

snow, directly after the sun light, Camelia had a hy-

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pothermic shock and shook for a couple of

minutes.

Same happened to Roland....Probably it was

the shock after what happened.

Then they immediately got over it, at Maria”s

shouts: ”Let”s move, fast!”

Camelia got over the road down the peak of

the mountain following Michael”s thick legs, which

she caught shaking, desperate, as if it was the only

way through which she wouldn”t slip in any mysterious

mountains steep.

”I will take care of you!” said tall Mihai.

Camelia did not think that something dangerous

could happened on the mountain. Something so

wonderful like the mountain, she was thinking,

could”t be dangerous. Even after the accident,

seemed that all that happened to her was just a

dream.

Only the injuries she had on the skin got her

back to reality. Luckily she got her T-shirt before the

falling. She wasn”t injured at any internal organ.

Only near the temple, a rock hit her a bit and

a fine spring of blood was running down her face.

They got in the train and Camelia was very

hungry. But it was only some bacon left. Usually,

Camelia doesn”t eat bacon, but now she thaught it

was so good. They finished all the bread as well. In

the station, in Brasov, her mum and her sister were

waiting for her.

”Camelia?! Did something happen to you? I

had a hunch in the morning.” Her mum asked.

”No, no. Said Camelia fast. It was all alright.”

Camelia wanted to go again in another trips

and that”s why she avoided telling the truth to her

mother. When they arrived near the local hospital,

Camelia told her mother in a slow voice:

”You know...mum...I fell a little bit on the

mountain and I need a doctor to see me!”

At the emergencies, the young doctor smiled

when he saw Camelia and said to her:”What are you

doing here young lady? Did you got hurt again? You

should”ve come with me. I would protected you.

You wouldn”t have got hurt. If you did not accept

my invitation to the spectacle look what happened to

you!”

A night before, Camelia had washed a bottle

with milk and the water had come with such pressure

that both the thick bottle and the sink broke.

Some pieces of glass got though in her leg and her

mother told her to go to a hospital for an antitetanos.

It was the same doctor there. Three days in a row

something happened to Camelia. Just a night before

she was in a car when, in the turning road to

Radacau from the county hospital, a jeep almost

teared the car apart.

“I went to the mountain and fell, said Camelia

embarrassed to the doctor.”

He had to disinfect the wounds because the

pebbles entered in the beck and arms. She was lucky

that it wasn't something serious..... “I told you not to

go on the mountain , because it's dangerous, said her

mother.”

The next days, Camelia found out from Gabriela

that Ronald told her that he fell after her to

save her. He was a climber performance. There is

however the possibility to fall, because he was with

street shoes and these ones were falling in the snow.

However, after his reaction it looked like he was the

victim.But if she hadn't met him at thetrain station, if

Liviu hadn't called also him on the mountain and if

he hadn't come, Camelia wouldn't have tried – when

he fell in the abyss – to stop and who knows what

would have happened..... The ravine which they fell

off had also a predestined name, “ The Devil's Ravine”,

because most of the people found their end in

it, being a straight wall of rock, which began exactly

where it stopped.

The next day, Camelia woke up like nothing

special happened the day before. As usual, Camelia

was walking on foot by the University, as she did

when she was a student. She wasn't planning to go

with the trolley. She was leaving on the central

bulevard and she was used to arrive fast in the centre

of the city, where they were and the bodies of the

universities. The route was so nice that made her

dream.

She was entering in the lab. The sunlights

were overflowing in the waterfall, by the giant windows

that were occupying almost all the outer wall.

In front, the tallest students in that year were sitting

in the first place. She figure it out that they left intentionaly.

Probably they found out that a person

who have just finished college was coming. Camelia

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was younger than her students because she started

school at five years old and a half and also because

students went to the army before they started college.

Fair hearly, supple, with the face of a doll, with

big, black eyes and a small mouth, Camelia have

always known that she have looked smaller than her

age she had. In winter, she found a solution for this

problem: she got dressed with her new coat, three

quarters,with blac nutria and polar fox cap.

The course was on the second semestre, on

the second year of college. During the seminar, they

found that the advices of her coordunating teacher,

Mr. Toia, were helpful for her. He told her to remember

also the partial and final calculation results

of the resolvet problems, inside of the coordinating

seminar, in order to check the correcteness of

solve.By that way she could also economy time and

see immediately any mistake that a student has done

at the blackboard. She knew that just the best ones

elected this specialization, not to go through some

any forgotten place in the world, because the governmental

repairs were very goodfor the ones who

were graduating this university – most of the jobs in the country

Dr. Cornelia Păun Heinzel: THE STORY OF THE VENICE MASK / Povestea măştilor veneţiene
TRANSLATER: Sorana Avramescu
Once Sorana steped into the city of pools, of romance, of supreme love and of the cruelest betrayals in love, Venice, the land rise of water, she had the feeling that she lives in an amazing world, where time seems to have stopped from its natural course, that she floats in an atmosphere permeated by the medieval spirit, where knights and ladies gave life to the most grandiose castles and palaces, which seemed to be swallowed by the water that passes through them unhindered, from one end to the other. The incredibil combination of water and light, gave magic and fairy to the place. And the mirage of Venice, city of light but also of dark made that every moment lived in that miraculous salted water of Adriatic Sea, to be felt the most. Her parents chosed this fascinating place as destination for the semestrial holiday from February, lured of the faime and magic history of the city. And of course they fell in love with it at first sight...... the walls shriveled facades of buildings, fallen... but at the same time proud and stately, nobly bearing the imprint of time. In this legendary city which seemed that never gets tired and never sleeps, Sorana had the impresion that the houses that mirror in the water are telling their own stories, which seemed to hide incredible secrets and the own history, in another time. She was excited about the gondola tour, but, at the same time, tired of travel, she fell asleep.
Suddenly Sorana felt like something is gentle touching on her shoulder.
' What are you doing here, in gondola, beautiful lady? I am Andrea, Duke Torino's son. Did you came for the carnival? '
Sorana rubbed her eyes with her palms and when she opened them, she saw a beautiful teenager, with brown hair, tall, in a medieval prince costume, with a golden mask, with sparkles and peacock feathers, in his hand.
'yes, but where are my parents? Asked perxpled the girl.'
' you've lost them? No problem. I'll accompany you to find them. The city's streets, narrow and dark are like a maze, where is difficult to find their end. I know them very well. And you'll sure enjoy the walk. What can be more romantic then a gondola tour on the Grande Channel, between palaces, churches, luxurious houses, with the sky above us, accompany by a gondolier that sings us.
'What a beautiful mask you have! Exclaim the girl. '
'Do you like it? I am glad to give it to you! ' said the Duke's son.
Sorana was glad about the gondola tour, between wonderfull buidlings belonging to other times, between the narrow streets of the city. The route got them at the kilometer 0 of Venice: San Marino market.
'Let's stop here for a minute, told Sorana and took from her pocket a croisasnt. She fragmented it and feed with it a few pigeons Tell me about carnival. From when is this lavish fest celebrated in town? asked the girl.
'Since ten years ago, our century thirteenth, marks the start of the Carnival, told the teenager.'
'But we are in 2015! Exclaimed the girl.'
'You might be kidding me. Venice was always famous in the actual era, the medieval one, for its lavish proms and full of charm, with princesses and ducheses of a rare beautiful.' But the most wonderfull was doge's daughter. When she turned sixteen, the doge thinked that she may can come for the first time at the prom. He ordered her a delicate lace dress and a wonderfull hat from Paris
And there came the expected day.When the duke's daughter entered in the dance hall, everyone was speechless by her beauty. Princes, Dukes, they all wanted to dance with her. Then all the women present at the ceremony got really angry. All of them get whiten besides Rosina's beauty, the Duke's girl. But the most thing that hurt them was that they had not dance.
In the days that come after prom all the girls get in one place and thought about what they have to do. The girl of another Duke, Carla, very jealous on Rosina proposed then, at the prom, everybody will always have to wear masks, so nobody will eclipse anybody else with their beauty.
Everybody made very attractive and woderfull masks, colorful, with feathers from exotic birds, from expensive velvets, decorated with lace and sparkles. At the next celebration, everyone was amazed by the beauty of the masks that there wasn't any Duchess, Princess or other girl that hasn't dance. That way, the carnival become a tradition.
What an amazing story! Exclamed Sorana.
Look! The 'Sighs Gate'! An old legend says that if you pass under this gate with gondola and kiss the loved person, love will pass any obstacle and love will be eternal, told Andrea. And he came closer to Sorana so he could kiss her...
Sorana, what are you doing? It's late! You slept so much! She heard her sweet voice of her mother.
The girl opened her eyes slowly. 'So it was just a dream! ' thought her. Then, she looked at the pillow next to her and she saw the golden mask with sparkles and peacock feathers...