Romanian Teens

What do Romanian teens do? In Romania, young people love to hang out in the mall. They are some of the most fashionable people I know.

When you arrive in Romania, you will be stunned at how beautiful the young Romanians are. They are very keen on the latest fashions and often can be found strutting their stuff in the Mall on a Friday or Saturday evening. However, unlike in Britain, you will rarely, if ever, see any Romanian youth who is drinking excessive amounts.

Romanian students often work exceptionally hard at school. It is not unusual to discover they will have four or five tutors, for their different school subjects, outside of school, along with extra studies with their parents. My young cousin managed to get 94% in her final exams – and is off to study for a degree in French.

In Romania, young adults like to study more than one degree at a time at university. Often you will hear they are studying two degrees, at two different Bucharest universities, at the same time. So they have little time for getting into too much mischief. You will be amazed on how many are studying for a law or business degree. Major companies such as Microsoft come here to recruit these exceptionally hard working students.

Young adults from the more traditional families will still believe in following a fairly religious life until they get married. Young Romanians do still spend a lot of time with their families and relatives as they grow up, and so continue to develop a high standard behaviour. As yoing Romanians are now aspiring to become more ‘Western’ in their ideas, lots of problems are following them.

There are still strict sexual divides between the Romanian youth. The males are still expected to be incredibly practical – having gained all their practical skills such as being handy with an axe and able to repair the old family Dacia. The Romanian teenage girls are still expected to be able to run a home, and have a wide range of different Romanian recipes, able to run a household and shop – and believe me – Romanian teens are experts at shopping!

In addition to practical lessons with your father and uncles, if you are a male Romanian teenager, then you had to, until recently, join the army. If you were a school leaver – you would spend 2 years in the army, while graduates got 6 months in the officer class. Many a Romanian girl still looks for a Romanian male teen who has attended the army course, as then he is far more practical and organised than before.My poor wife had to teach me the skills a Romanian man should have known on his own.

Bucharest is getting into a more dangerous place for young Romanians, which is why I guess they are so well protected by their family and friends. I often see a sad looking poster on the underground with pictures of missing Romanian teenage boys and girls, who have been kidnapped and made to work abroad in the sex trade.

The joy of Romanian teenagers is their knowledge of English. As a lost tourist, I have often been taken by the hand and shown where exactly I should be going. As the young Romanian get older, you see them less and less, as either they are busy with their university studies or have moved abroad, where they can find better jobs as builders in Spain or Italy.

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