Back from Prague

Hello Everyone I made it back from Prague this last monday. I had an absolutely wonderful time there. I met Ludo & Sylvia the day after my arrival at the main train station. We then spent the day going to many of the well known sights in Prague.

Prague is a wonderful place to visit especially if you like architecture and history. There is so much history there its unbelievable. I think the Highlight of my whole trip there was seeing Saint Vitus Cathedral. It is a truly spectacular sight. you do not realize the enormity of it till you see it in person. Its a wonderful example of the gothic style.

I also have to mention that Prague is one of these places in europe that even if you do not know the language you will be fine. I was able to get around on the citys metro without any problem. And at the restaurants most of the wait staff understood my english fine. and when they didnt all i had to do was point. as the menus were in both czech and english.

Well im goign to leave you with a couple of photos

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trip to prague

hey everyone so as some may know i have to travel out of country to get my passport stamped so i can stay till the end of August. so this Wednesday i will be going to the beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic. I cannot wait to go I have heard so many things about that city and all the great sites. My camera is definitely going to get a workout there. I will most definitely have many pictures to share with you guys once i get back. and of course i know some of you may be wondering, I will see and meet up with Ludo and Sylvia while im there. so it should be just the break i need. Im working like mad trying to get the school advertisement video done before i go so that means roughly a day and a half to edit 3 hours of footage down to 15 minutes complete with narration.

well every body have a wonderful day talk to you later.

Weekend Off Campus

Ok so this last weekend I was able to get off campus for the weekend and go home with one of the students. The trip actually started at 6:00pm thursday night. We left herghelia for the nearby town of Tirgu Mures, here we boarded a train to Brasov at 7:20pm. The journey on the train was quite an experience, the train trip was 10 hours. about the second stop a group of gypsys boarded and i was told by christi that i should keep an eye on my luggage. i understood why, about 8 times that night one of the gypsys would open our compartment door and see if there was anything within easy reach to take. but we would just say hello and they would leave. after we arrived at Brasov it was time to board a bus at the autogara (aka bus depot) to a city call slobozia where we then took another bus to where the students home was all in all it was about a 16 hour journey. The family was very friendly and kind, and one of christi's aunts asked if she could adopt me. One thing that i had to get use to was when i had to go to the bathroom i had to go outside to an outhouse because there house had no running water. His family was very hospitable and cooked so much food for us, i still cannot believe how much i ate over the weekend at times i thought my stomach was going to burst. This was also the first time i had ever eaten a goose egg. which in case you are wondering does not taste any different but is about twice the size. I had a wonderful sabbath aswell christi's cousin got baptized and the whole church there was very friendly and outgoing.

i will keep you updated with any more adventures. and see you guys in roughly 85 days

trip out of country

Hello every one so it has been a while since i have made a new post. this next month i have to go out of country because of the regulations of a tourist visa being only good for 90 days. this will give me a chance to see a little more of the world. I am currently planning to meet Ludo and Sylvia in prague the weekend of the 12th of june but still have to work out all the details. but it will be nice to see a familiar face from back in oregon. and should also be a wonderful opportunity to capture the beautiful city of prague in pictures. i will post an update as soon as i get things finalized.

Thank You

Hi everyone i just wanted to take some time to thank all of my friends and family for your continued supports and prayers. Things here are starting to go a little better im getting to know some of the people a little bit more and am feeling a little more comfortable here. It also sounds as though they are going to have me start working on more english projects which will be much easier and I will be able to get more done this way.

Also I wanted to let those who may not have known but you can leave comments to my posts and i check them pretty frequently so if you just want to write just a short little message its a great place to do it.

Thanks again for all yours prayers and support

Nick

Begining of May

Hello everyone, it's been a while since i posted an update so i thought i would let you know how things are going. I am still trying to learn more romanian. but it is a very slow and gradual process. The language barrier definitely gets in the way at times particularly with the projects they have given me to do. Almost all of my projects have to be in romanian so this makes things quite difficult, and at times halts me at a standstill where I can not go any further without the help of someone that speaks both english and romanian. many people speak both languages but are too busy with their own projects to help me with mine. So far i have made a flyer for the summer youth camp and helped design the flyer for the summer health camp aswell as nearly completing the advertisement videos for the health camp.

I wish everyone a blessed day and blessings throughout the month of May.

Birthday

as some of you may know my birthday was 2 days ago. it was really kinda weird thinking abou have my birthday in another country. the day pretty much went as normal except they sang happy birthday to me at breakfast and at lunch at the workers cafeteria. there they sang the a romania version which i did not recognize at all they also made a fruit salad for desert that was very good. and then they called me over to the school where they had small cakes for the students to celebrate my birthday and said they hoped that i felt as though i was part of their family. it was quite nice.

also one of the girls named raluca gave me a little cow that is very similar to a beanie baby. i was joking with her now i can have some milk but since its a herghelia cow i guess it only makes soy milk.

here is a link to some more photos: i post there because its faster easier and i have more space.

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