going natural
Just imagine…. walking down a Romanian street…. seeing a barber shop (frizerie)…. thinking, hey, I need a haircut…..and in the window, seeing the choice of haircuts…. which all appear to be from 1960 communist times. Needless to say, David’s been worried about getting a haircut because of the language barrier, because of the scary pictures […]
Romanian spontaneity
We wondered about our first weekend in Târgu Neam? — what we would do, how we would get into the community and whether we’d have the energy. Somehow, things just happened. Serendipity. Yesterday afternoon, on a whim, I asked a few kids in front of our bloc whether they wanted to play cards. An hour […]
ere I forget. . .
It’s easy when life is trucking along at a fast clip to forget to chronicle rites of passage. Last Friday, David and I moved from being Peace Corps trainees to Peace Corps Volunteers. I know it may not seem like much other than governmental semantics, but it is a milestone. For over two years , […]
shout out: PCVs’ blogs
Over at This is My Blog, there is a phenomenal post about BACON KRAX. I won’t spoil it by actually explaining this Romanian phenomenon. Really, you need to check out Courtney’s blog. I’ve included a picture to lure you to her post. While we’re on the topic of blogs — check out Gretel’s Wide Blue […]
another first: cooking in Romania
It’s a time of Peace Corps firsts for us — the first night in our apartment, the first meal , our first interactions with neighbors and now a first I’ve been looking forward to — the first time I cooked in Romania. For 11 weeks of training, our gazda cooked us breakfast and dinner and […]
first dinner in our new home
So, we arrived in our new town of Targu Neamt on Sunday evening. By the time we hauled our stuff up three flights of stairs, met the landlord, talked about bills, inventoried the apartment, noted the numbers on the meters, and figured out how to operate the stove, the hot water, the lights, it felt […]
excursion: exploring bucuresti
So this past Saturday, we put on our big-kid pants and headed out to explore public transportation to and in Bucuresti. We had an agenda — buy sheets, pillows, and towels. David had an additional agenda — eat Swedish meatballs in Romania, so IKEA became our destination of choice. And who am I to complain […]
We’re alive… but not necesarily connected…
It’s week seven and we are still crazy busy with only a few minutes for internetting. So we apologize that the updates have been scarce. We’re working on getting pictures together for “a day in the gazda life” of David and Veronica, so y’all have an idea of what our days during Pre-Service Training have […]
A brief video…
This video shows the sheer awesomeness of our new home… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNpIdRWiTM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fneamt%2Ewebnode%2Ecom%2Fnews%2Fvisitors%2Dnotice%2F&feature=player_embedded]
V’s assignment
So I haven’t had a lot of time to look for info about Târgu Neam?, other than the few links I posted hastily, but I found out that the NGO I’m assigned to has a very pretty helpful website. Check it out… http://www.fundatiasperanta.ro/index.php