Confort Otopeni

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Yes, Romania is inhabited! With Romanians... and rroms...

NO, the capital is not Budapest (and you can tell that to most major artists coming for concerts here)!

NO, we do not have an infrastructure! Only 1 highway and three quarters...

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BUCHAREST: THE GOOD PARTS!

In the very ...

I've been carryiing around my warm clothes for 1 1/2 months now. So far, I have just needed my long sleeved blouses and my hat and warm jacket a couple of days in Iceland at the very beginning. Just looked at the weather in Tashkent and it is also around 22 degrees C or about ...

... and got a room. The owner told us he had opened 3 months previously. When we told him we had been hoteliers in the US, he showed us throughout the property, including into the kitchen. Then he offered us dinner. Courses came and came, along with Romanian wine. Copy and paste this link into a new browser to see Romanian Road Trip pictures: http://tinyurl.com/2edudp

... up on the mantle piece and there's a doll sitting there. It has messy blond hair, one eye open and one closed. Alarm bell # 4. I mean, have these people never seen chucky? Oh wait a minute, they probably haven't. Needless to say it freaked me out quite a lot. Luckily my bed was facing the other direction so i could sleep. Chris explained to her that Im a vegetarian. I figured that was safer than trying to explain that i do eat some meat but not this and not that. Then he left and i ...

... accept for the sales guy who need to see a passport to confirm i am a student) in all honesty i dont look older that 13... ya but not a student... then the famous champs.... shoppping shopping shopping... maybe next time (not in the budget) well maybe some pumas?... bumballa! i got some pumas!75 cnd usually 120! YAY FRANCE!! to the eiffle tour.... thought it was alot bigger... then sleepy time cause we are poooped. we saw la louvre and this bassilica, and a whole bunch of ...

... other blogs but the message of when you have a lot it is harder to come to Christ then when you have a little.. The Romanians today have much better lives compared to during the Communit era. So, they have less of a need for Christ. Jobs and money are much more plentiful. We tried to help the kids at the camp see that following the path of materialism in the Western world was not following God's path. Lots of them ...

... for them when their country continues to advance economically. I told them that they encouraged us to continue to embrace the simple life and be content with what you have. I may not blog this much, but we are kind of starting off slow. Lots of people are having trouble with jet lag. The living situation feels like living in a college dorm room. In Him, Tom

... any problems in Romania. He agrees that some people are a little backwards, but all are friendly, and he thinks we'll have nothing to worry about. I devour the meager rations and endeavor to doze. After a 7.5-hour flight to Frankfurt and another 2-hour flight to Romania, I am safe and sound in a truly fabulous hotel - the Marriott Grand. Built at the same time as the nearby "People's Palace," and in the same imposing style, the government intended it to be occupied by the ...

... any little booths near the entrance that may or may not have been the ticket office - Ooops! We DIDN'T see it - I swear. But then again we weren't looking. Most of us got up into the grounds and thought it was strange that we hadn't seen any ticket gates and didn't want to make anyone angry so turned around and came out... without trying to go further. Although a few people went all the way in...for free... yes they'd moved the ticket gate. Oh well ...

... students!!! People here are really poor but really kind - I have what seems to be half of my family's (tiny) flat all to myself! Today we had our first Teaching Lesson/Romanian Lesson so we have been practising our new phrases on everyone we meet...Emily told her bus driver to pass the salt...in perfect Romanian :-) Anyway that's all I can think of now. I've added a couple of photos of our first day here, but I'll update when I get photos of the past few days. La revedere. Reece.