Return from Romania

"I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth."
Psalm 121:1-2

Flew back in to the states this last Saturday from my second trip to Romania.

Oh man...it was soooOOOO GREAT!!! I just can't say enough HOW THANKFUL I am that I was able to go. I love Romania! Everything was even more lovely than I remember it. I had such a blast spending time with my friends at the churches there, getting to walk around the funny little town of Pucioasa and seeing all the little kids coming in off the street to see the weird Americans doing VBS! Not to mention just being there and soaking up the simple and happy lifestyle of our brothers and sisters there was such a refreshment...I didn't want to come back!! ):

If anyone is interested here is a blog that documents the happenings of each day of our trip (including fun times like getting ferociously carsick going through the winding roads of the mountains as well as my sister and I not waking up to our alarm and losing our hotel keys haha...oops)
http://thenarrowgate713.blogspot.com/

photos!!

Near our hotel. I guess this place sells chicken meat? I don't know but I love that chicken.
(Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: I got a haircut)



My partners in crime and I dressed up as Romanian Christian historical figures as part of our VBS program one day. From L to R: Vasile Voiculescu, Ioan Alexandru, Dumitru Cornilescu. Those names are pretty fun to say out loud. (I'm also pretty sure we look absolutely nothing like these people even in the slightest bit)

My TREASURE!!!! After eating lunch at sister Mariana's house she gave me a big bag full of the reddest, juiciest tomatoes I've ever eaten, picked straight up out of her garden (not to mention another bag full of the crispest most delicious cucumbers I've ever eaten). I ate those bad boys like apples! They really make watery pink american tomatoes look awful.



Check this dude out in the pink. We spotted him SEVERAL times walking around town during our trip--always in the same outfit. (I told Isabelle to pretend like I was taking a picture of her...)










I didn't draw near as much as I would have liked to. I felt like sketching all the time because I was constantly surrounded by awesome looking people and scenery! Here's some pages from my sketchbook in any case









and of course...



ROMANIAN FOOOOOOOOOOOOD
I can tell Romanian food is PACKED FULL of nutrients and protein; in ten days my nails had grown suuuuuuuper strong and long SUPER fast. (Of course I also feel like I gained about ten pounds...what kind of missionary trip has people eating so much good food all the time?!)

Anyway, God willing, I will be able to go back again next year! It has grown to be such a dear place with such dear people to me. I'm sad because I know I'm going to forget all the Romanian words I picked up in about a week ): oh well

La revedere!!