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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 very interested students), Carmen, the woman running the American Corner, arranged for me to visit the big museum in Craiova.
Vergil, the driver for the Fulbright Commission, drove me to and from Craiova. Since he doesn't speak a word of English and my Romanian is not much better than that, I brought every phrase book and dictionary I own to practice on him. Amazingly I understood most of what he said to me, and at lunch I learned the words for fork, spoon and knife (furculita, lingura and cutit) along with everything else on the table. I also learned that we were eating in a "pizzeria," and over there was the "bar." My Romanian was at least good enough to already know that, but it was the thought that counts.
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