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The great thing about this internship is how much traveling I get to do for it. Even if they are "business trips," at least they're trips. And thankfully they have a tendancy of coming up right when I think I can't handle another day in Bucharest. Craiova is a town about 3 hours west of Bucharest, and I went there to present study opportunities at US universities to students at the American Corner there. After the presentation (which was packed with v...

In the middle of a conversation about the wonders of Romanian conveniences, a friend asked me "what's colder than the cold water in Romania?" I didn't know, so he told me: "the hot water." I suppose this is how Romanians deal with the inconsistency of the running water here; make jokes and keep it light hearted. The same could be done for the sketchy internet connections, the elevators that only sometimes work if you stomp hard enough on the...

This past week Mihaela and I were conducting an EducationUSA workshop in Baia Mare, a town in the northernmost region of Romania, Maramures. The workshop was three 8-hour days of seminars for high schoolers and university students interested in studying in the US. While fairly tiring and stressful at times, it was a very rewarding week. The university students were pretty quiet and reserved, but the sessions I had with the high school students were wonderful. ...

This weekend I went to Brasov to stay with Neah, a Fulbrighter and a fellow Pacific Northwesterner, for an early "American birthday" celebration. Why American, you ask? Well, in Romania, it's the birthday girl (or boy) who pays for everything. And quite frankly I like the American way of doing birthdays better, and so did my fellow Americans, so I didn't complain. Brasov is such a beautiful town. Situated in Transylvania, it was influenced heavily by...