Greatings from day three at Nomad Fest.
Lunch in the park.
Two tables.
Table One: everyone looking at their phone.
Table Two: everyone talking.
I sit down at Table Two and say “Hi.”
They are two Romanians and an American, all living in Bansko.
We talked about English.
The Romanians complained that their schools teach kids to not like English.
We talked about business.
They all used to own a co-living space in an former hotel in Sibiu, Romania.
But their landlord kicked them out after they had too many parties.
We talked about nomads.
Can you be a real nomad if you pay rent and travel only part of the year?
Or is a real nomad always travelling?
And we talked about family.
The American’s parents escaped Romania in the 1980s and met in a refugee camp in Italy before moving to Phoenix.
Isn’t “Hi” the best word in the English language?
It’s the key that opens all conversations.
In many countries there is a short word of greetings that immediately attracts people. And in English it’s HI
I think there are hardly any people in Europe who do not use Hi and HELLO in their everyday communication without feeling like foreign words.
In Italy the word is Ciao!
Prawda 🙂
Does “Prawda” mean “Hi” in Poland ? Can you use it at the meeting someone and by the departing too ?
Cześć = Hi 🙂 Prawda = True
Thank you for the explanation
I thought about the real modern nomads who have been traveling the world for years with a backpack on their back. What could be the reason why they are not drawn to home and family? Is it a matter of character, is it a strong love of adventure, a passion for personal freedom, or have these people experienced trouble and run from place to place. It’s complicated.
Yes I can say that I was curious and payed attention to see how English is thought in Romanian schools and like I already known there is too much grammar, in my opinion .But ,however, a big number of students, kids and people speak very well and love English that is on the first place between the spoken languages in Romania.
I think “ God”is The best word in English and every other languages
Hi!
Hi to you too 😉!
In the North of my country live transhumants which way of life is similar to nomads way of life.
Unlike nomads transhumants have home village located in the North they leave every year at the end of the rain season to go to the South which offers more possibilities to meet the very high dietary requirement of the herd which allows them to be maintained in the dry season.
These alterning movements over long distance in isolated area create precariousness and dispersion which place them and their families in a situation of social marginality.
It will probably be long time befor the population learn english and one day say Hi.
Is this a fantasy or the reality?
Thierry id a reality Mara..
This Is à reality Marta.
Thank you for the answer. It sounded to me as some story from the sci-fi book. Why they’re called transhumans ?
Hi Marta
Thank you to be interested in Transhumants. They are chepherd with attached villages where they reside and oparate a herd which is under care of few people part of the family remaining on site. The State is developing policies to settle trashumants who resited because transhumance is a cultural behaviour.
It’s a lifestyle of shepherds in many countries. Still I don’t understand why are they called transhumans, what this name means? And what kind of animals are in the herds?
Thank you for the answer.
Hi Marta
Transhumance from the latin trans (on the other side) and humus (tne land, the country) is a seasonal cyclical migration of variable amplitude of pastoraliste with their livestock (cattle, horse, sheeps) between complementary ecological areas depending on climatic conditions.
Transhumants are distinguished from nomads who live excusively on livetock products and move with entire farms (men and animals) and from semi-nomads who get 50% of their income from livestock and 50% of agriculture.
There are people who travel the world and others to whom the world goes. Of course the roles can be reversed.
People nomads, semi – nomads and non-nomads make the world interesting. And when they greet each other, no matter in what language, the world becomes even more smiling.
Hi!👋
I like the stories/reportages from Bansko!
Hi!
“Hi”, “Hey”, “Tsao”, “Bye” – these words are also in daily use in my country without thinking where these words come from. Good words! If only all words were so simple…
It´s so nice to read about your meetings at Nomad Fest. Enjoy!
Very good word for all reasons
Many of my people, Ukrainians, were forced to become nomads when the war broke out. I hope that most of them will be able to return to their homeland as soon as possible and live in peace on their land. Hi is a wonderful word)
about to be nomad, I am asking why we need to have a misure when it don’t need? if I nedd to change the door I need to have a misure, but when we talk about us, how we are, we are like we feel, so nomad is first in our way to be. And of course, the start is ciao, hi, in my language you can use it when you come or when you leave, more ciao, more life, more hi, more life