Corina Murafa

Welcome to Corina Murafa’s new blog! I haven’t written a blog post in ages… Still, I’m pretty sure I’ll rediscover the knack for blogging soon. I’ve definitely missed it a lot. A whole lot of things have happened in my life in the last 6 months or so, and I have finally managed to come to (reasonable) terms with myself, my dreams, ambitions and restlessness.

This new blog will be the beginning of a more comprehensive personal webpage, and it will be more of a professional one, in contrast to the former usintricacy.blogspot.com, which was excessively personal to my liking. Also, about half of the posts will be in English, especially the ones discussing things of general relevance, or things not related to Romania in particular. The main reason is that Romanian hasn’t universalized enough yet, and I have tons of very dear friends who cannot make either head or tail from my beloved mother tongue. However, as I love Romanian and as I am doing most of my advocacy and project-related work in Romanian, I will also blog in Romanian quite often.

The main topics I will cover are:

• education and educational systems
• my work (be it school or ORICUM-related)
• politics, human rights, diplomacy
• European Union business and politics
• good books and good movies
• amazing people and their flying machines

I’ve decided to blog again simply because I believe my images and assessment of the world are worth sharing and because I find my life trully interesting and meaningful. As simple as that! I want to stay in touch with friends and others in my community and I hope I’ll discover amazing new people through comments posted on my blog, as it happened to me in the past.

With the help and input of my very precious friends Cosmin and Alex, I will soon make some design readjustments to my blog and make it trendy, posh, glam, and yet keep it user-friendly and informative In case you’re not perfectly familiar with my background and interests yet, feel free to browse the About me section.

I’ll end my welcome note now. I promise to return soon with a post about some amazing Romanian youngsters I’ve recently selected for the latest project I’m working on - Youth Summit 2008 - but also about the effects of Romanian education on the ability to think and act strategically, or at least coherently.