Intro Track
At 3:23 - Greetings Xenophiles!
On this day in 1945 the US plane Enola Gay flew over Japan and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The Manhattan Project, and it’s promise of Mutually Assured Destruction was supposed to mean an end to all wars. Didn’t really work out, did it?
It’s Bolivia’s national day - because on this day in 1825 it gained independence from Spain.
Today in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. Can anybody remember what life was like before that…? How did we book holidays?
And exactly 30 years ago today the Ramones performed their last ever concert at the Palace in Holywood.
Happy Birthday to Geri Horner - otherwise known as Ginger Spice - 54 today.
Sidonia Doica
Who do you think you are?
1. Throwback
Where born (and optionally, when)?
How was growing up? Urban / Rural / Chaotic / Relaxed?
Family / Siblings?
School? Did you enjoy it? Were you good at it? What did you specialize in?
Outside of school? How did you spend your evenings / weekends / holidays?
Anything specific / unusual about your childhood?
Hobbies and dreams? Did you dream to become a doctor / Lawyer / Architect / Train Driver / Astronaut?
What’s the first thing a visitor should see or do when they visit your home town?
19:19
2. Money Money Money, Travel Travel Travel
This will cover your time from leaving school, university, building a career, places you visited, things you saw. Your journey from ending school until reaching Romania.
Topics include:
After school: College / University? Where? To Study what?
Post grad: When you finally found yourself qualified and free – what did you do?
First job: This may have been during studies also.
Career development: How did you evolve in Business?
Travels around the world: Where did you go? Why? What was your favourite? Any stories to tell? What did you learn from these experiences?
19:34
If you’re listening on headphones the start of this will make you a bit dizzy.
3. Chaotic, Quixotic, Exotic
What brought back you to Romania. What did you do – why did you stay?
Topics include:
How your story brought you back: How & why did you come back to Romania?
Was this always the plan?
What were your first impressions, and how have they changed over time? (if you are a returning expat, how have things changed while you were away?)
What do you do professionally? (Anything else apart from Radio Guerrilla?).
What about your free time? Travel? Sport? Explore? New or old hobbies?
19:49
Next Chapter
What are your dreams and plans for the future?
Topics include:
Do you intend to stay here?
Plans for the future?
What would you change if you could?
What’s your ‘life motto’ in one sentence?