• Maria Ciuca
  • Maria Ciuca

Tracing Migration

Celebrating becoming of age as an expat by retracing my migration route. Read more
  • Trip start
    October 22, 2022

    The moment before flying

    October 22, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Yeah, I made big plans. Set it all up bit by bit as a puzzle.
    I prayed for everything to fit in naturally. To flow into place.
    With no religious rituals in my backpack, I just had long conversations with the moon and stars.
    And let come out who I am. Who I think I am. That stranger inside me that wants to come through and meet the world. The one who seeks peace.
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  • My first home

    October 23, 2022 in Romania ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Just arrived in Bucharest I took a train I did not know existed which took me to the precise place where I was born into this world.
    I hadn't visited this place since I left it as a newborn, 44 years ago.

    Then I visited my father and he said "know you are home here". I had never lived in that place nor with him but it did feel like home.

    And I realized everywhere I go, I find home. I just need to shed the lonesome skin that keeps me from allowing myself to be fully intimate with life.
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  • Prague

    November 1, 2022 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Home again, this time in Prague. The encounter was so beautiful, as if meeting and old friend who had been waiting for me.

  • Münich

    November 3, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    Last day, felt long and painful. Just a drop of enthusiasm by meeting an old friend made the afternoon hours pass by quickly.

  • Trip end
    October 22, 2022