photos: on the road

Posted by on Aug 7, 2010 in on the road, pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

I’m pretty meticulous when it comes to photos — deleting the ugly ones, putting together panoramas, scanning in tickets/brochures/postcards, etc.  So a week after returning from vacation, I’ve only got half the photos done.  Rather than waiting for all of them to be done, here are links to our flickr sets.  I promise some future […]

on my mind: decision-making and stress

Posted by on Aug 2, 2010 in on my mind, pc-romania, veronica | 5 Comments

I know it’s awful to come back from a fantastic European vacation and have the next blog post be about decision-making and stress.  But these subjects reared their ugly heads because there are moments on a vacation in a foreign country that are stressful — not knowing a language, getting turned around, figuring out currency […]

on the road: vacation stats

Posted by on Jul 30, 2010 in on the road, pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

So, we are back in Romania and recuperating from vacation with Mary Ann.  On Sunday we’ll make the long trek back across Romania to our little town and get back into the swing of things. While I’m not ready for vacation to be over with, I must admit it’s nice to be in a country […]

on the road: prague update

Posted by on Jul 25, 2010 in on the road, pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

Later tonight we say goodbye to Prague.  Things we’ll update y’all more on later via photos: Seeing the absolute wonder of St. Vitus Cathedral’s stained glass and the extreme Baroque of St. Nicholas in Mala Strana Hopping on trams we think take us to certain places, but don’t. Experiencing the coolness of the bone ossuary […]

on the road: wien update

Posted by on Jul 21, 2010 in pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

Ah Vienna…  things we shall remember and write more about later… exploring palaces, churches, and musuems for two days — everything from Hapsburg opulence to Keith Haring and grafitti art more heat necessitates  more gelato everything has its place in Austria (bikes, dogs, tourists) almost tossing my cookies in Karlskirche being overwhelmed by people and expensive […]

on the road: budapest overview

Posted by on Jul 18, 2010 in on the road, pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

Good news: our hotel has a computer with internet.  Bad news: we cannot upload pictures. Regardless, we wanted to post a quick update about our few days in Budapest — both to give y’all a taste and so that we don’t forget some of the good stuff. Riding to Budapest with a big Hungarian guy […]

on the road: spre vacanta

Posted by on Jul 15, 2010 in on the road, pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

Yesterday from 5:30AM to 9:30PM we were on trains. Hot trains. Sticky trains. Never-ending trains. Yes, to get across Romania from our small town in the northeast to a larger  city  in the northwest, it took 16 hours.  But we kept our spirits high – our cabin-mates weren’t afraid of curent (draft), so there were […]

on my mind: excitement, anticipation

Posted by on Jul 9, 2010 in on my mind, on the road, veronica | No Comments

So far we’ve kept most of our travel Peace Corps pertinent — seeing Romania, collaborating with other volunteers, integrating into this country, etc.  But a week from today, we’ll be using some hard-earned leave and hitting the road to new places — Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Krakow.  These are some of the crown jewels of Europe […]

on the job: 2nd goaling it for the 4th…

Posted by on Jul 6, 2010 in on the job, pc-romania, veronica | No Comments

The second goal of the Peace Corps is ” helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.” And really, what better time to give Romanians a glimpse of American culture than on the Fourth of July?!?! So Ted and I were enlisted to throw a Fourth of July gratar […]

keeping traditions; in the kitchen: lessons on sarmale

For my final English class with my beginning group, we took a Romanian recipe for sarmale and translated it into English and had some major conversations about food.  I used the excuse that I’m becoming a Romanian woman (M? fac românc?) and every Romanian woman needs a good sarmale recipe. Quick aside: Sarmale is traditional […]