A few of my favorite things...

Like I said before, I apologize for being absent the last couple of weeks. Since it was the middle of the summer, it seemed like everything was coming to a peak and was super busy. So here's what I've been up to the last two weeks.... 

Beniamin and Denisa, from Ogra the Gypsy Village. Week 4 of camp. 

The rest of my team on the last day of camp, week 4, when I had to stay home sick. 

I love the sunflower fields behind our house.... 

"Let all creation rejoice before the Lord!" Psalm 96:13

I mentioned to you in the last blog how we were chased by sheep last weekend. Well, here's some pictures to prove it....Dita thought it was funny....

Fanel climbed a tree....

And then the sheep moved in on us more....

...and we all ran away. This is real life people. We were chased. By sheep. 

Even though we were interrupted from our nice picnic in the forest by sheep, we all had a great time! This is all the sheep survivors... 

Then on Saturday of last week a few of us decided to try out public transportation and go to the big medieval festival in Sigishoara, the birthplace of Dracula. We showed up to a bus stop hoping to find a bus to take us to the festival an hour away, and were turned down by the bus driver. Smh. So we walked away and finally found a different bus stop that would take us to Sigishoara and piled in like animals for our hour bus ride, pictured above. 

We had such a great time at the festival and it was definitely an adventure  trying to get home too. We were so lost but ended up getting back home, even though we were dropped off an hours walk away from Bex, the American missionary's, apartment where we were having dinner at. It was definitely worth the adventure though....

Me at the festival...

But the adventure for the day wasn't over. Saturday night after leaving Bex's, we decided to take the elevator down the 7 stories, since we were so exhausted from walking all day. As I was warning Kerra, Hannah, and Anna whom I was in the elevator with that it was going to make this horrible screeching noise in like 15 seconds, it screeched....and stopped. We screamed. And then panicked. We were 7 floors up, and the elevator was hanging by a thread...I mean, the light of the elevator was (pictured above), why would the elevator not be?!? After screaming for about 10 minutes and no answer, I turned on my phone and made an emergency call and we were able to get out. It was definitely freaky, but fun at the same time. We had such a good weekend, but we were so glad to get home after being chased by sheep, lost in Dracula's hometown, and being stuck in a communist elevator. 

Me, Anna, Hannah, and Kerra stuck in the elevator. 

This last week of camp was our 5th week of camp. It was so great, and we had the LOC kids with us. This is my team, echipa galbin (yellow) at Vetca on Friday. 

This week we did something new... "decorate your intern". I apologize for the graphic picture of myself; I was a pregnant, Indian, Mrs. Joker, tribal woman. Or something. I don't know, but my team did great I guess. Ha! 

We finished off this week with lunch at Dona Cafe in the center today. I love Sunday lunches...always such great conversations. And great lemonade. :)