So guys, during my 6 week project here in Romania I got a really great chance to have a talk session with Alexandra Crăciun (one of the founder of Exquisite, a marketing and branding agent in Romania). I always like to learn about marketing and shaping a brand, so for me as a business student, the talk with Alexandra was interesting and helpful. 

At the end of our talk, she then gave my team a writing challenge. She is managing a site in Romania called "I Love Cluj" and she wants us to submit one article and the best one will be posted on the website.

I was so confused what to write and all of my international friends here are so good at writing, so I asked Alexandra, "What is the site about? Who's the audience?" and stuff like that (see? I am starting to use what I learned in the university here :p). When you know your audience better, you could present something that is much more appealing in the eyes of your audience.

After I knew that most of the readers of the site are mostly people from Cluj that are now abroad for working, studying or for other purposes. Most of them misses Cluj so much that they want to know all the stuff going on in Cluj through the website. Well, that's kind of a complete information and it's enough for me to write something.

I've travelled to several cities in Romania and to be honest Cluj is my favorite. It is the best city in Romania. The people are so nice and helpful to foreigners, you can barely find people who will stare at you weirdly. The city is full of students so you can make friends with literally everyone (well, if you got that "talking to strangers" skill, which I tried a lot there and it worked!). Plus, the moooost important of them all is Cluj is now the European Youth Capital, so it's like a heaven for all youngsters. There are events, concerts or festivals for young people going on everyday which you can attend.

Alright, back to the article, I actually have loads of time to write, but since I procrastinate a lot too, I only have such a short time before the deadline. So I was traveling to a beach in Constanța, a city near the Black Sea in Romania and during my lunch break, which only lasts for an hour, I tried my best to write what I feel about Cluj. I already have the concept in my mind, so I just have to write it down. It was kinda hard to write in such a rush because my writing turns out to be shit, but it's better to submit it rather than didn't submit anything.

So now that my project has ended, Alexandra posted my article on the website!! I am sooo glad that I made it. I thought that I won't be able to win the challenge because all of my other friends are way much better than I am in writing articles. But I guess through the power of knowing your audience, my article is suitable to be posted on the site ^^

And you can read my article by just click the link below ;-)
 

Graffiti guy paints a very nice graffiti during a street art festival in Cluj

Teenagers at the Central Park; playing with friends and chilling at the hammocks

Young people with their spirit, bright red as the lights

Young people showcasing their skateboarding skill at the park

My favorite cafe, YOLKA! They made me want to have a wall like that in my house ^^

Group of teenagers in Cluj still hanging out at the cafe eventhough it's late at night already

Have you ever been dreaming of something and one day that dream just come true? Well, when I was little I have a dream to at least watch a concert of an artist/ band that I really like abroad and experience the different atmosphere and euphoria. That time I was dreaming about watching Jonas Brothers's concert LOL (Yes, I was around 11 years old that time).

That dream is of course just a dream, why would my parents fund me to go abroad just to watch a concert? 

But then the law of attraction seems so right! Now that I never stop dreaming  of all of my dreams, the universe is also never stops to make my dreams come true. Remember that I am in Romania right now to do a project with AIESEC? Yup, I am now staying in the city that has been awarded as the "European Youth Capital 2015", call it as Cluj-Napoca (or just Cluj for short). Cluj is so full of young people and I can even feel the hype and the spirit in every air that I breathe. No exaggeration, but this is kinda true! I'll write another post about the Cluj spirit after.

Alright, since Cluj is the current city of Youth Capital in Europe, they sure have loads of events or festival coming up every day. One of them is this huuuuge festival called UNTOLD FESTIVAL.  It's a 4 days music festival, they officially call it as an electronic dance music festival, but personally for me it is not just about EDM musics... They also have some soul, RnB and a little bit of pop artist in their lineup.

Untold Festival 2015 is the first concert ever been held and since it is becoming a huge success, they will hold a second batch of festival next year (of course)! Untold for me is like the Romanian version of Tomorrowland. If Tomorrowland could reach up to 300.000 visitors, well Untold isn't that bad. In its first year of the festival, it's been recorded that they have 240,000 visitors during the whole 4 days!  Even Indonesia's best EDM festival, Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP) highest record has only 50,000 visitors. 


Untold Festival Day 1

July 30th, I went to the Cluj Arena to exchange the ticket that I already bought for a bracelet at around 4PM. I went there with my Lebanese and Ukrainian friends Jihane and Diana, which are my roommates and we were sooo excited! We went there by cab and I can see every youngster in the city are wearing this Untold bracelet on their wrist, means that they're all going to Untold. It was sooo fun, we were like Untold family and even we didn't know each other we will still smile, greet or high-five each other. This is the European Youth Spirit!!

Look who's on stage!!

Tom Odell on Untold Festival 2015

Those are photos of the first performer I watched on Untold, yes, Tom Odell!! He's sooooo lovely and we sang along :) Even though he is not the main attraction on the first day of Untold (the main artists on the 1st day was Dmitri Vegas & Like Mike), but he was the highlight of my first day.  And ooh, not forget to mention Lost Frequencies too! He was playing during the sunset and the vibes were so chill! 
 

Credits to: Iulius Mall Cluj-Napoca

I personally really like that candid photo of me. So, it was taken right before I went to see Tom Odell. I was just chilling at the hammocks with Diana, Iwona, Walid and Jihane... my friends from Ukraine, Poland, Morocco and Lebanon. I accidentally found this photo of me on Iulius Mall's facebook and instagram pictures 3 weeks after the concert! LOL 

Untold Festival Day 2

Second day of Untold was all about spending quality time with friends. That day, we went to the festival wearing our own flags and people were giving us high-five as a friendship gesture. It felt sooo nice, the Romanians, well, mainly people in Cluj are really welcome to foreigners.

My team mates and I were representing our countries on Untold Festival

Selfie in the middle of Avicii-- with more and more international friends from the other projects

Besides Avicii, I was sooo happy to finally be able to see Cazzette live, hear their song "Together" and dance to the song with the other friends. Also, Aron Chupa killin' it too, even after Avicii's performance!

People were having fun with Avicii!

Untold Festival Day 3

I went a bit different for the third day. That day I wasn't with my friends from my project. I made an appointment with Anastasia and Casian, my Romanian friends that I first met on an AIESEC event called Global Village (I'll write about Global Village too, later). 

Casian - Ana - me - Tudor

I arrived at the Central Park around 7 PM and I already heard it's John Newman playing on the stage. I was so excited to see him live even though I probably late for like 30 minutes or so. I called Ana and she said she's inside the Cluj Arena already so I went inside and trying to find where Ana was. And voila, thank God! Among thousands of people inside the arena, I finally met her :) We screamed and hugged and then I met her brother too, Casian. And they both introduced me to their friends, loads of friends and some of them are Tudor, the dancing machine and Iulia, who likes to scream during the concert LOL. It was a nice time, and they are all so nice! We also went to see Tinie Tempah and Armin Van Buuren!

FYI, Armin played for more than 3 hours and a half! He was playing until the sun is literally up! 

I took this photo from the tribune during Armin Van Buuren, he was playing for more than 3 and half hours and I can't stand it so I went to the tribune LOL

Untold Festival Day 4

The vibes inside the Cluj Arena

Fourth day of Untold marks the end of the festival. And this day I went with Ana and Casian again, they were so nice, they went to my dorm and then we took bus together. First stop was the Piata Unirii, because we wanted to see one of the Untold stages with the rock bands playing. But since we were late, we missed the band's performances.

Since we missed the"'Rocking Stage", that's what they call it anyway, we just went straight to Cluj Arena for the Untold Fest. And ooh, before that we met some of Ana's and Casi's friends too, so we went together.

Tujamo on stage

Guetta on stage, finally

This day we saw Tujamo, Third Party and of course, we were waiting for the final show which is David Guetta. Though honestly Guetta is not my favorite, but yeah, I just went with the flow and spend time with friends. And ooh... Finally the closing, the fireworks lasts for, like, around 10 minutes non-stop. And it was sooo great! 







The fireworks. That's it. That's the end of the 4 days of magic in the heart of Transylvania. Though I basically don't really enjoy EDM musics because for me it is too loud, but all I think about is the time and memories I spend with my friends. Of course I'll never experience the exact same thing back in my country. And anyway, one mission "go to a concert abroad" is finally accomplished!! :)

I wish I could see you again, Untold 2016!