Showing posts with label old folks home. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Adventurous Day#2

An unexpected adventurous day. It's so full of stuff and sights that I can't write it all down, and I have to wake up early tomorrow so I don't want to stay up too late.

My day involved:
-seeing 15 people standing in the back of a truck drive
-going in the same direction as a herd of cows on the streets and I felt like we were on the streets of Spain
-playing red-rover with kids at a school
-eating snacks for 2 different kids' birthdays
-walking 1/2 km in the wrong direction to find bread, and this was my second trip, I tried once last night, and the shop is seriously, no joke my neighbor on the other side
-talking with a lady across the street and her husband who's pretty passionate about politics and she gave me a whole bag of veggies: garlic, onion, lettuce, pasley, etc...
-I went and visited an old folks home cause they're sort of my neighbor, and it was a fun to see the old peoples' faces when they saw me and I said "Buna Seara" (good evening) to them.
-I jumped in a car with 5 other people and ended up sitting in a political speech where my mayor (he's my mayor, he's my counterpart, and really I don't know much about the other dudes running, I want my guy to win, but as a foreigner, I have to act semi neutral about it) was talking. I tried to look composed and attentive, when I was hungry (I was...enticed to come as I was going home to dinner) and cold.
-I fed my left overs to cats and dogs of my neighbor (that's what we do with left overs here). Secretly I saved pieces of meat just for them cause they're soooooo cute and friendly! Even though they live outside and the dog is permanently chained.
-I tried to time how long it would take me to walk over 2km from my house to the Primaria (mayor's office where I will work 1 or 2 days a week), and people kept trying to give me rides. It was a nice day (I took lots of pictures), and I was saying hi to all the old people standing outside their homes, and I even stopped a few times to carry a conversation. After the Mayor passed me twice, I didn't argue and I got a ride the last half. I am going to guess it takes me 45 minutes to walk to work.

That was my day.
Tomorrow I am going to Chirafti #2 to listen to a Romanian class during an "inspection" by the government, and then to Mastacani #1 for a tutoring test run with a teacher there.

There are 4 primary schools in Mastacani comuna: Chirafti #1 and #2, Mastacani#1 and #3. Mastacani #2 is a gardanita [gar-den-eeezha] (kindergarden).

I also saw an engineer dressed in business clothes, with a briefcase hope into a horse drawn cart. That was funny.