Showing posts with label marshmellows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marshmellows. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Here are a whole bunch of pictures:

More pictures from Thanksgiving, where we went to the village Sunday morning.

Cats:

Hey! We get a good shot of the turkey too! See how small its breast is. It was a female turkey too.

Gypsies in our region are the best metal workers. They make these type of pots and rice doesn't burn on it, they barely stick.

Some of Peace Corps came on a visit so we went to the Indian restaurant in the city. It was okay, but I've had better curry in the US. Maybe cause I like my curry spicy and more flavorful and Romanians tend to like more bland flavors. It was still ethnic and fun.

My backyard dump (all the trash besides the compost stuff):
The cat helped by lying in the sun, he didn't collect the bottles, my neighbor did.


So I built these things so the trash won't fly around and there's a plastic section for the left and others to the right. Not bad for May '08 to March '09; minus the trash that was lit on fire and burned in November.
Game: Where's the cat? in the picture to the right.

Market, and it was on the 1st of March, it was bring and warm and nice.

Hum...their version of sour cream and onion chips. I tried it...and I like the sour cream and onion a LOT more. (I had thought it was really the same, but nope, it's dill).


Working on my local paper. There's a shop, and there's the post office selling the paper for me.

Still Winter. Did you know people use the branches of this type of tree for all sorts of stuff: fences, whipping horses, holding up plants for their vineyard, tomatoes, etc...

Some people (mostly gypsies to my knowledge) come with large bags and sell stuff to the mayor's office. So my co-workers were shopping for clothes.

My large fish called: nov-lak

Yum.

Over at Emily's for a girls' weekend. We made sushi and watched Casablanca. It's a good movie =) I liked it and it was digitally remastered so didn't look like an old film.

We used raw..or smoked fish: herring salad. I dont' know who would eat this salad by itself, but it was good in our sushi.



I don't know why, but there's a beam of light directed at the plate of sushi on the left, and I find it weird and funny.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Settling in - In Ploiesti

So....things are starting to settle down.

I know I've been terrible with blogging these last couple weeks, but there's really not too much to say.

I've finally managed to Roll those R's!!!! Hurray! After weeks of practicing.
RRRRRR RRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRR

I can make short rolls, but not long ones yet. I can't say words with 2 R's either, yet. I'll get there.

Um....other things that are consistant with my days and weeks now.

About 2-3 times a week for the last 2 weeks Sarah and I have gone jogging in the mornings. Today she ran 2 miles and I ran about 1 1/2 miles. I have no idea how far that is in km.
This is the furthest we've run, thanks to our mp3 players. We have to get up at 6:00am to go jogging. We meet about 6:25ish and we jog until 7am.

We go back and I eat the breakfast made for me then I get ready for school.

Every weekday I go to language class, and ever week we have a new teacher so we are exposed to different teach styles and different accents. This week I have Simona - tall, skinny, and supposedly very kind teacher. I've had her one day, and I'll let you know how it goes.

On the weekends from now on I'll probably go to this nice cofeateria I found. It's cute and quiet and reminds me of the bagel shop I worked at.

The two things I think is weird Romanians have no idea about: Bagels and marshmellows.
They have no idea what they are!

class is starting. Pa!