chalk revolution

Today we went on the street a bit later than usually. We wanted to see if it changes the people we meet and the reactions we get. And we were also hoping to different reactions, because we had new thoughts to share. Route – piaţa Victoriei to piaţa Revoluţiei. Already at second chalk stop we met some guys who were very interested in what we are doing. And one of them said that probably we didn’t go to school, because we misspelled the sentence -again :). But when we said that we are not Romanians, he was like: “Oh, ok – no problem!” and corrected the mistake. But I’m still not sure if he made a good correction or not, because Romanian version of message “Do you agree that we don’t always have to agree?” we got from a Romanian girl. So, there is still unclear which version is correct one. Another man responding to a message “Bucharest… let’s get lost in the wires of the city!” said that probably it is not good idea, because the wires are not good for your health – magnetic fields and other things.
On our way to piaţa Revoluţiei we did some experiment with messages and environment, for example, “Bucharest is a modern city, or at least that’s what they say on TV!” in front of closed and graffiti covered “Hugo Boss” shop, and “I judge Bucharest, but Bucharest will never judge me” in the middle of piaţa Revoluţiei. To this message some ladies after spending approximately 30 seconds for reading responded with loud laughs. Unfortunately our camera died shortly after this, so we decided to go back to yesterday’s spots and check if messages are still there. Some of them were almost gone, so we “renovated” them and got some other reactions. One guy asked what are we writing, but was too impatient – after invitation to wait a bit and see himself, he spent few seconds but for him the writing process was too long and he went away. And when we were about to leave, some street kids came to us, asked for a chalk and went to put right punctuation for our last message. So, probably for people of Bucharest it is more important not what is written on the pavement, but that it is written correct…

BUCURI