Elvis' Villa Hostel Bucharest

... I&#8217;m not sure of the engineering of something that large to withstand that much. Luckily for them, this has not been put to the test.<br><br> Many of the long hallways in the building and the huge rooms are made of Romanian marble with crystal chandeliers. It is a lovely, lovely building. Conferences are held here as well as the Parliament meetings. You can apparently rent the rooms for balls as well but in the ...

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... The Peoples' Palace" made by the people, for just one greedy man and his wife. Gotta love communism. Next up, Bulgaria!    

Today was a really cool day. We left Sofia on our way to Romania and we drove through the fog that was so thick you really couldnt see your hand in front of you. It was pretty crazy for a while there but we made it through. On our way we stopped in a very small town called Veliko Tarnovo and it was really, really pretty. It was a hill side city which went into a lake then rose back up ...

... and were quickly distributed and packed off home to sleep. I am living in a two room flat, Bucharest has very few houses just flats, flats and more flats-as most Romanian people have told me is product of the Communist regime that ended in 1989. Yeah so its pretty tight and certainly different from life at home. I have the only proper bedroom which funnily enough is actually equipped with a huge TV and double bed and the rest of the family-Nicoleta, Dan and their three-year-old ...

... having passed such an arduous training process. I remember the nervous feelings of excitement in preparing to depart for site and the sadness of knowing I wouldn't be seeing my friends everyday from that point on. It was so hard to move out of my host families house, b/c I had really grown close to them. It's strange having so many of these feelings all over again. The last weekend before swear-in in Uzbekistan I went hiking with my friends in the mountains, as you have seen pictures ...