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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...

People told me Bucharest would be very different than America. They were wrong. It's an entirely different world over here. My two-day "layover" in Budapest was lovely. It was absolutely wonderful to just relax (and speak English!) with my friends from home. I do love Diosd, the town they live in. And it's always great to see them and catch up and scheme up ways for me to work at the school they all teach at. It was a perfect little dose of Moses Lak...