Day 5 and 6: Peanut Butter and Sour Pickles

Well, I think I'm on the upswing of this cold or whatever it is. I felt terrible yesterday, but not so much today, so that's a blessing. We had an AMAZING storm today while Katie was teaching the last class. It was so loud that she couldn't hardly be heard over the rain. I was excited though because I love storms, and Attila said that they really need rain here.

Yesterday at dinner Katie and I had an interesting experience. Attila had to go to a meeting at Reghin before the Bible study at Gornesti, and apparently he thought that Zolie would be at dinner with us, but Zolie had a meeting too, so we were alone. Katie and I ate dinner with a family of two of our students who spoke practically no English. Let me just say that it was one of the most awkward experiences of my life, but at the same time Katie and I were both kind of glad that it happened. We felt independent for the first time that we've been here, but at the same time I was extremely enlightened on how limited my communication is here.

We were in such a good mood after talking with Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Floyd on skype last night, that we decided to have a party, and just to show how hardcore we are, we broke out the Nutella. :) I'm a fan, it's no lie. And there is no bread in America like European bread, so that just made it even better.

Speaking of food, we had the funniest conversation with Zolie today at lunch. There is practically no peanut butter here, but Zolie actually knew what it was, unlike Attila. Anyway, Katie and I were talking about our favorite way to eat it, like peanut butter and bananas, peanut butter and apples, etc... normal stuff. Anyway, Zolie is sitting there listening and he says "ooohh yes, I love it too. Especially with pickles. Sour pickles.(!!!) And sometimes with ketchup." Can you believe that? I kind of want to try it now just because Zolie was so enthusiastic, but at the same time it's kind of revolting.

After lunch we went to Zolie's house because we have a break for a couple of hours, and we must have looked pretty rough because Abigail kept trying to get us to take a nap, but we kept insisting that we were fine - unfortunately we ended up falling asleep on accident. I was kind of embarrassed haha. I think we only slept for about 25 minutes though.

Oh funny story: we wanted some bottled water yesterday while we were teaching so Attila went and bought us some from the store. The name of this particular brand of water was...get ready...Mountain Dew. :) I was so excited hahaha.

Katie drove the "gypsy wagon" today on one of the back roads in Reghin!! She was so excited. I was really impressed. Attila claims he's going to teach me manual, but I'm terrified haha. I couldn't believe how well Katie drove; I'm pretty sure I am going to kill that poor car.

Today marks the end of our first week here. I can't believe how fast it's going by.