Sunday we got to go to the branch there. It's really nice having the girls to show us where things are and how to go about doing things. The branch had about 30 people, there are three sets of missionaries. So it's a pretty small church. Once again the missionaries translated for us but when second block came around we were able to have a meeting with just us 13 girls. On the way there though, which was only about 10-15 min walk away, mom and I were walking with three of the girls and two of the girls had there butts grabbed by this old drunk guy on the street! Some times we get honked at, kissing noises made, whistle sound but this was the worst that happened in our two weeks in Romania. We feel really safe with all the girls and the area we are in is pretty safe. We were able to see their apartment which is quiete nice for the area, they have many neighbors that are lawyers but the way they live is still different . They invited us over for dinner and we celerbrated Mrarios brithday. In Romania it is common for those who birthday it is to give a gift to those they celebrate with. Mario following this tradition taught us how to make her favorite dessert. It had chocolate cherries and was delicious!
Now about the girls apartments. It has a elevator however you can only fit four people in it and that's if you are packed in like sardines. It's is about 1/4 of the size of an average American elevator. They have a washer but no dryer so they hang their cloths outside on the line.
One thing that I was particular thankful at the hotel was air conditing ,the girls apartments don't have it so we invited them to come and have there next planning meeting in our room. They loved it, one of the girls said she hadn't felt that cool for three weeks. So than we invited them Tuesday night to have a pizza party,to enjoy the air conditing and to thank them for everything:) it was really fun! But let me just tell you if your ever in Romania and are about to order a pizza from Pizza Hut think again! It is not the same,how u ask? It just different thin crust and nothing like at home. Guess they don't know what deep dish pan is. And guess what! They don't sell bread sticks! None zip nada! Can you believe it! Either could I. But things here are just different like yogurts different, better in Romania in my opinion. They sell a lot of olives here! They have a whole section similar to the meat or cheese section that just sells different olives. You have to pay for plastic bags, McDonald's charges you for ketup packets! ! Verry diffrent where at home we just grab a handfulnof them!At McDonald's you can get an ice cream cone for Cheeper than a ketup packet! Now if you get your ketup any other place than McDonald's ketup is different here, it's not as red and the flavor is just a little off, it's more sweet if that makes since, not to much to our liking.
Tuesday we ran into a snag between the workers and us. One little girl came in from playing on the trampoline outside with this huge goose egg on her head the nurses were very angry. We found out that she fell and had hit her head but the nurses were mad at us! They mocked us and yelled at a few of the girls, it was a very unpleasant atmosphere! We came out of the orphanege very upset at how they handled the suitation. They got mad at us when we didn't cause it, yet some of the workers are very rough on the children, one girl got knocked down by one of the workers and ended up with this huge slash on her forehead. The children are so sweet and that's why we're here but the workers and culture make it a extremely difficult.
Thursday was our last morning there, two of the girls were kind enough to offer to show us where the train station, help us get on and figure everything out, before we left we feed what we called " our dog". Over the past week we had seen many stray dogs but one morning my mom felt really bad for this one dog so while waiting for the girls she went back inside to our complimentary breakfast ( different than in America. Pretty much meat, salads and tomatoes) grabbed some meat and she feed it to this dog. Almost every morning she would find this dog and give it some food. We found out that he had been abused. it really made me just want to take him home to America. We meat this sweet lady who always carried around dog food who when she came across an dog in need she would give some of her food to him :) The first time we approched hime he was really scared but by the last day my mom would make this whistling call and he came running from down the block, it was really cute.
We got on the train headed for Bucarest and than we transferred to Brasov but less than 10 minitues when were sopposed to leave we didnt know the lane or the cart! while trying to find our seat and this guy helped us and he asked if we wanted to buy a magazine for helping us my mom thought why not , but when we got a magazine my mom asked for change back and than he was like o this is enough and took off, it was in leis so it wasn't a ton of money but still we were just happy to be in our seats. But that didn't last long litterly less than a min later after we have our bags up on this extreamky crowded train this guy tells us that were in his seats! This other guy turns and is like ya your in the wrong seat grabs the suitcase and the ticket and is like ill show you where it is and takes off, my mom goes after him while I'm struggling with my backpack that's stuck underneath my chair. when I catch up two cars ahead he tells us these are are our seats and would we like to donate to the children foundation, we give him a small bill, because we just payed the other guy but he had our tickets in his hand! And he's like this isn't a lot and were like we just spent a week in an orphange donating our time,so we give him like a dollar ( but in leis ) more and than we look at the seats and what do you know! There the wrong seats. Mom was fuming we got past the guy and she was those weren't our seats and at this point I'm sure we were both sending out some don't mess with us vibes because no one else tried to help us. We found our seats opened up the sealed magazine only to discover that it wasn't even in English AND it was from June of 2010!!We talked about how No one from then on gets ahold of our tickets or our luggage! We wrote the ticket information on our hand! We had been warned about scams , with taxis, talked to a girl who had her i pad stolen in barcalona, had a guy in front of us tell his friend how he just felt a hand go in to his pockt, saw people let men carry there luggage across a bridge( with steps) ( we didnt let them) have to pay 20 euros ( like 27 dollars) so felt like we were doing pretty well . At this point we were just ready to get out of Romania! It was a bad experience, but after talking about it we decided maybe maybe we had this experience so that later on we wouldn't have something worse happen to us.
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