Tirgoviste Redeux

Back to the first city I lived in. Back in time one year plus a few days. Back to the strangers that had become family.

This time around I was only staying for three days not three months and had the entire time free to spend with the Ionescu family. I got to see what they actually did while I was away at school all day, and as I had suspicions they napped after I left (for almost a year I believed they ran on less than four hours of sleep a night, waking up with me at 6am and going to sleep after midnight)

Three days of nothing but Romania really made me realize how much I've learned and how much better it is now that we can talk all day. Mariana is as funny as ever and has learned two sentences in English, Iza still refuses to admit she speaks any at all, and Denisa and I got to catch up like in person instead of my awkward written Romanian. We went to the pool, the park, out for drinks with the whole family, and pizza with just the girls. Not a bad couple of days, and definitely made me homesick being a part of a family again but at the same time made me realize that I was part of the family. Mariana says I'm not allowed to leave Europe because then I'll never come back to see her again and will forget all my Romanian so then I won't even be able to write her. Really do love that woman.

best quote of the visit- "the crazy girl has come back to us, now stay here and talk to me all day, those grandchildren of mine are boring" from the bunica (grandmother)