Hello everyone! I have arrived safe and sound in Lupeni, Romania. I have been here almost a week. Everything is new and still very exhilerating in an sense. I bought fresh fruit from phesants in the market for the first time. (Trei mere va rogue- three apples please) she responded by weighing the apples and saying some monetary amount at first I thought she was charge me too much by saying "sapte lei" (7 lei which is a little more than 3 dollars) the acutally price was 1 lei 70 bena (sp?) which is about a dollar. I held out 5 lei and she gave me change. Thankful she was an honest marketer (Some people will over charge me knowing I am a foreigner!). Money, langauge, culture...its all been a bite daunting but also exciting.
I just got back from Straja, that is the mountain I will be working at once summer comes. Straja towers over Lupeni as the second largest mountain in Romania. The views put a smile on my facce, Lupeni is a concrete city- not super scenic. But once up in the mountains it is so beautiful. I cannot wait until summer and spring for things to turn green, it will be that much better! The director of Viata Illea had to go up there to let some men install an alarm system into the Cabana (base area for Viata, ski hut in winter time). A few weeks back a theif broke in and stole a computer and skis! I decided to join Illea to see the mountains. We took a chair lift up the mountain.
Hopefully once I get my camera working I will be able to post more pictures!
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