Subject: FW: signing up the group
Date: Mar 07, 2004 @ 15:06
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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>From: george georgiyan <georgegeorgiyan@...>welcome george
>To: <BoundaryPoint-owner@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: signing up the group
>Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:16:57 +0200
>
>I'm glad to meet you, owners of this group!
>I found this group address searching information about enclaves andthanx for being here & for all these impressions & ideas
>territories on google. I happened to find this address, being on a site
>which was describing the borders of the Campione d'Italia. Here there were
>shown different photos with points of borders.
>
>I personally have a weakness towards points of borders. I live at the
>margin of Europe, in a locality which is a border point between two big
>civilizations which knock themselves: The Eastern and Western European
>civilizations.
>
>My name is George, I'm 30 years old, I live in Iasi, Romania. I'm keen on
>Geography, I like geo-politics, topography, to study about states of the
>world and territories, I like travelling and discovering new places.
>Whenever I passed the frontiers between states, in the border point I was
>reflecting on the indicator which was marking the passing between one
>country and the other. The first country I passed in was from Romania into
>Soviet Union, and at the border, me, being at that time very young, I was
>treated as an infractor. And since that time I never liked the border area
>again. Another time, when I was coming from Ukraine into Romania, the
>people working at the Ukrainian customs wanted to take me off the train,
>and to keep me blocked at border. Simply I wasn't in any country, blocked
>in a nowhere region. I had the feeling at that time borders can become for
>some people black holes of civilization.
>
>I would also like to participate in this group in order to give away the
>bad impressions I made towards the borders of the world, to get new
>opinions and suggestions towards this issue which I feel as being quite
>sensitive. I see the border point as a symbol alpha & omega of the
>beginning and end of a world. I'm curious to see the opinions of other
>people too towards the subjects I exposed.
>_________________________________________________________________
>With respect,
>George from Iasi - Romania.
>
>Favourite quote:
>"An ant can create an empire, but an empire can not create an ant. Please,
>respect the ants, not the empires." (George Georgiyan)