Month: October 2010

We had a crazy busy weekend where we did all kinds of stuff. It needs some real time to detail it as it was one of our best weekends in a long, long time.

We said a very sad goodbye to our host family and we’re currently in a hotel in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. We intend to fly out Tuesday night to Rome if things go to plan.

Hopefully we’ll get some time tomorrow to post some more.

We’ve made a pretty tough decision to leave our volunteering placement a bit early. We were due to finish on Friday and fly out Saturday, but with Glen sick (again, different this time) and Deb feeling a bit similar, we think this is the best option.
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We haven’t done a whole heap this week thus far hence the lack of updates recently… I (Glen) went to see a football (soccer) game between FC Brasov and Croaiva Uni on Monday night which was very interesting. Sadly Brasov lost 3-0, but it was still a really enjoyable game/experience.

Hello everyone! This is Deb…So a bit about my placement….I work at Sacele Hospital which is about an hour away from where I live by the time I have caught 2 buses. It is quite a nice drive – my loved ones keep me company on the way to work by texting me. My bus is about a 10 minute walk from our house and I catch the number 23 at 0820.
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After a pretty crap buffet breakfast, we headed off to the botanic gardens in Cluj to try and find some of these painted park benches Larissa was keen to find. Upon getting there, we noticed that most of the benches were in fact new. Still, being the highly cultural people we are(n’t), we thought we’d look around and take it all in.
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