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BUCHAREST: THE GOOD PARTS!

In the very ...

I went to Bucharest this weekend which was very interesting!!!Lets just say the journey down there was not the best in the world, normally I can use being English to my advantage but not in Bucharest.
I went down on Hospice business - we had a per-marathon to promote the Hospice at the cross. It was successful as we were able to make our name known ...

... my ticket. I'm good. The Americans are in trouble. They've purchased a standard bus ticket but boarded the special express bus, futilely making the case to the inspector that they were told to take this bus by someone at an information desk somewhere. Mr. Inspector doesn't care. The fine, $25 each! Yow. Make sure you validate your ticket too. Same deal if you don't. Bucharest is a loveable dilapidated mess. I liken it to walking through the ...

... experienced a level of pure freezing cold that is close to comparable to that which we have experienced here. We would walk briskly down the street wearing every single item of warm clothing we owned and would still need to take regular frostbite preventative measures in the form of electrical store stops (pretending to peruse TV sets), supermarket stops (pretending to peruse food) and outdoor adventure gear store stops (pretending to peruse hiking ...

... most expensive administration building and the heaviest building in the world. It was built when Nicolae Ceausecu (Communist) was in power. Walked down the Boulevard Unirii, which is Bucharest's version of the Champs-Elysees (the Romanian version is of course longer though) to Piata Unirii. Had a quick chicken dinner for lunch and then walked clear across town to the Peasant Museum (another open air museum). Had the quickest possible look around there and then walked back ...

I can't think of much to say about the city. It wasnt bad, but there were not a lot of things to see and do. The palace was quite ...

... Looking around, this is actually a relatively nice and clean train station (you need to show your passports or train ticket to be allowed in, the way that the government to prevent homeless and beggars from entering the station). But it was time to leave. I did not run into any fake policeman, menacing Gypsy kids, muggers, beggars, or even stray dogs that terrified me. However, I only stayed here for two hours, in this most avoided capital in Eastern Europe. I ...

... 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 ...