What I DID this weekend

No I didn't DO This! I saw this on the side of the road next to the maxi taxi station.
It's "weed" aka "marijuana plant."

Here I am sitting in the back of a jeep in Romania. I went with Nils and Emily and Marie to a picnic near the city. To make me leave the comforts of my little village, I was promised Brown Sugar and a chance to test my allergies by switching pollen with pollution.

While I was waiting for Marie to get out of church, I met up with a Romanian friend and I got to "sit" on her boyfriend's motocycle (motorcicleta) [motor-chi-clea-tah]; it was my first "sit" on a motorcycle ever.
(I lied earlier).

After that stuff, I went home to my site. =)
and I called my family in the States.

Site visit this week

I will be gone from Miercuri noapte (Wednesday night) pana (until) Duminica (Sunday) because we are going on site visits this week.

Ergo: I won't be able to go online for a while.

It may be like real Peace Corps now, or what I expected of Peace Corps.
I know, expecting anything is bad, so I will work on un-expecting for my site visit.

Tomorrow we meet our "counterparts" the person who will be our "in," maybe our friend, definitely our interpreter and anchor at our new sites.

I don't have any expectations because I don't know where to begin: male/female, young/old, typeA/typeB??

I have told my gazda family that I'm leaving town for a few days and our language classes have been canceled this week though our profesori (plural professor) gave us plenty of tema (homework) to keep us writing Romanian.

It's nice to have this break from language class, but also kind of a bummer because there are things I don't understand about making correct sentences.

I remember in 1st grade our teacher telling us that "nice" isn't a real word and that people don't use it anymore. She said that "kind" is a more proper word. I've always felt shy about using the word nice since, but here in Romania people use it all the time!
Was my teacher right? I still hear the word being used until now...?