Merry Christmas Eve!!
I'm currently in Petrosani visiting Andy and Joel for the Christmas holidays, we are off tonight to celebrate Romanian style which I'm told involves and all night meal and then caroling for treats late into the night. I'm quite excited about it.
I know I skipped over a bunch but I'll go back to it later.
24 December 2009
20 December 2009
dinner with the ambassador from the united states to romania
For Thanksgiving as I hae mentioned before we volunteers were invited to attend dinner at the new Ambassador and his wife's home in Bucuresti. Over thirty of us made the trek to the capital city, booked ourselves into hostels and took a chunk out of our monthly allowance to attend. The meal itself was less than impressive to me but then again I'm a picky vegetarian and formal meals like that include alot of meaty heavy entrees and side dishes, though I must say the grilled pumpkin went famously with the white wine they kept bringing out.
Now originally I had a place at a full table of cool people who I hadn't seen in months and was excited to get to chat and catch up with, but sometime between putting my wallet down and standing in the buffet line my chair got taken and so the other refugees and I started our own party of three at another table. To our benefit the AMbassador decided to go for a smaller group than the larger one with an open table and so we got the chance to talk casually and learn all about him and his history. He is a very close friend to Joe Biden, a first time overseas diplomat and is embarrassed that he can't speak more Romanian seeing as he wants to talk to his non-English speaking house staff. He's quite funny too and very interested in building up a more co-operative relationship between the Embassy and Peace Corps. His wife is just the perfect little hostess too, even allowing me up into their private quarters to search out band-aids for the poor ladies to put over the blisters their heels gave them.
In true fashion when more than five volunteers get together, we all headed out on the town and ended up at a pub-style establishment(something rare here) where the special of the night was a wagon wheel which held 11 half-liter halbas for only 30 lei ( or the equivalent of two cases of beer for only 10 dollars.) We played new card games, took pictures and started our dance party of course. All in all a good night.
I would love to share a picture of the wagon wheel, but sadly mine didn't come out, but I'll do my best to get a better copy since its a sight to see.
Now originally I had a place at a full table of cool people who I hadn't seen in months and was excited to get to chat and catch up with, but sometime between putting my wallet down and standing in the buffet line my chair got taken and so the other refugees and I started our own party of three at another table. To our benefit the AMbassador decided to go for a smaller group than the larger one with an open table and so we got the chance to talk casually and learn all about him and his history. He is a very close friend to Joe Biden, a first time overseas diplomat and is embarrassed that he can't speak more Romanian seeing as he wants to talk to his non-English speaking house staff. He's quite funny too and very interested in building up a more co-operative relationship between the Embassy and Peace Corps. His wife is just the perfect little hostess too, even allowing me up into their private quarters to search out band-aids for the poor ladies to put over the blisters their heels gave them.
In true fashion when more than five volunteers get together, we all headed out on the town and ended up at a pub-style establishment(something rare here) where the special of the night was a wagon wheel which held 11 half-liter halbas for only 30 lei ( or the equivalent of two cases of beer for only 10 dollars.) We played new card games, took pictures and started our dance party of course. All in all a good night.
I would love to share a picture of the wagon wheel, but sadly mine didn't come out, but I'll do my best to get a better copy since its a sight to see.
19 December 2009
to save time
so my computer has been fixed but unfortunately in the old UD style of wiping the harddrive and starting over so sadly i have lost all my pictures but thank goodness for facebook being so nice and storing them all for me. anywho my computer is now waiting in bucuresti for me to pick it up when i swing by there again in two weeks. ive finally stopped moving after being on the go since thanksgiving and in the interest of saving time ill just randomly fill you in on what all happened as i have to borrow a collegues computer and wrinting long and hilarious blog posts is for me a wonderful thing, she would rather i wait until they leave to do it...so
soon we'll be all caught up.
im still highly amused by the ear diagram in the dentists office by the way. i had almost forgotten about it til i looked through my camera today
soon we'll be all caught up.
im still highly amused by the ear diagram in the dentists office by the way. i had almost forgotten about it til i looked through my camera today
the dentist
ok so obviously when you go into the dentist office you expect to find the normal out of date national geographics and maybe a scenic landscape on the wall right. well for beccas appointment a few weeks ago we found this little guy on the wall.
clearly ear diagrams belong
on the other side of the waiting room in the spirit of the upcoming holidays was a christmas wreath complete with a baffling amount of apples and pears... becca found this most fascinating. especially when she tried to pick one and it was glued down. that'll teach you potential apple theives
04 December 2009
quickie.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of lots of cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes and creamed corn. I have much to share and tell you all about but unfortunately my computer is still nonfunctional... so I will be back soon with enough stories to occupy many a boring office meetings.
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