The power of mind

How great is the power of self-suggestion? Well, quite big I have to say. Yesterday evening there was a discussion at our villa on the topic of … smoke. The villa has central heating powered by wood. So the wood is burned somewhere at the ground level and the smoke is evacuated outside – the system definitely needs improving - anyway, it is not that bad. However, the discussion degenerated as if the house it was about to burn down – someone had a lot of anger to dissipate before New Year’s Eve. However, I pretty much slept like a baby and didn’t feel anything – however, the girls in the other room of the apartment complained about smoke in their room (I think it was from their own cigarettes, as the ashtray was dirty in the morning, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt). Anyway, around 11 the two girls decided Cheia was too boring for them and called a guy from Brasov to take them to a more exciting place – the downsize being that me and my roomy lost about three hours find them replacements instead of visiting the valley.

The weather was again beautiful and this time we walked longer than yesterday – for about two hours. We visited about half of the resort and had an excellent hot chocolate at Hotel Zaganu – I must try the hotel next time when I will be here, the chocolate was quite good (they don’t have hot chocolate at the Villa!).

We passed by a museum of “mine flowers” – we didn’t have time to visited but we will do it soon, as the other girls from our group already gave it their approval as an excellent jewellery shop.

The “ancient” Cheia hotel turned out to be quite modern, and it should definitely be tried out next time I’m in the aria – I think the view from the top room is great.

The evening we played “whist”, a game of cards I remember I was playing for hours when I was in the fourth grade and I was going in winter camp. We have also practiced levitation – not our own, but we had the beginner’s luck with a ball..

Also, I learned how to play pool – I think this can be marked as another good thing that happened in 2006 – at 29 I finally found a group of people to give me the benefit of the doubt and teach me how to play pool. And it turned out I am not bad at all – I have a particular style and I can play with both hands, I take a “laughing break” but I can put the balls it the pockets ;-)