Eight Project Free days....

Well, feels like a long time since i updated this (i really do seem to be the only heathfield girl with anything happening at the moment) - various internet disasters have prevented my blogging activity for a while! (so this means this is going to be an essay!!!)

Summary of how zoezoe and the Hannah lady have been spending there project free time:

Day 1 Sat: We found an exciting little park that we'd not been to before and ate lunch there. Then we watched the wimbledon women's tennis final with some english guys that we met via a friend. Then said english guys took us for our first KFC experience - apparently EVERYONE has eaten KFC (is this true??) (there i've mentioned it now guys - it really did happen!!!)

Day 2 Sun: We went to the international church where the english guys have been working for the past 8months. It was great to worship in english and hear a sermon in English, and not have to concentrate so hard on understanding the words, thus being able to concentrate on the meaning and application more. Oh we also ate Romanian food in a Romanian Restaurant with the English guys. The restaurant was quite exciting - the roof opened and closed and there were chickens and ducks in cages everywhere!

Day 3 Mon: Mountain Adventure 2 - Uphill, Busteni - Babele
Zoezoe and I decided it was about time we went up the mountain the traditional way (rather than our previous cable car cheat!) So we scaled 15m wide mini-glacier type things, edged our way slowly along the tiny mountain ridges and bravely stepped off the edge of a thin snow overhang onto the rock below! Most embarrassing moment was being caught mid-change between trousers and shorts by the only man we'd seen all day! (yes i was dancing on the mountain side in my pants! Oops!!)

Day 4 Tues: Babele - Omu - Bran and onto Brasov
Was rather suprised to wake up and find my legs to be pain free...the night before they had been in agony! So off we set across the mountain top to reach the peak, Omu 2507m. We arrived much faster than expected and after a quick lunch decided to set off on the 6hr trek down the mountain to Bran (the place of Dracula's castle). This seemed like a good idea at the time, we'd finish a day early and all that....2hrs in my legs began to shake and be in generally a lot of pain! The paths were really really steep and my knees weren't made for such trauma! With the help of two big sticks that zoezoe found, we eventually made it down the mountain - and even then we had a 2hr walk into Bran!!
In Bran, we ate a filling meal of good old meat and potatoes! Romanian cuisine is immense!!
We then got the bus to Brasov, where i'd cheekly phoned up the place i'd worked in my Gap Year and got us a bed there for the night!!

Day 5 Wed: Brasov
Spent the day hobbling around in Brasov, helped with day care at the house (its a charity that works with children and young adults with disabilities). It was great to see everyone again, they have a new lady organising the day care now, and she has such a heart and vision for the place, its so exciting to see!! In the evening we got a minibus back to Bucharest ( the driver kept telling me off for putting my feet on the seat...ooops!!)

Day 6 Thurs: Don't remember much from this day apart from Pain, my legs didn't really understand why i'd made them climb a mountain, and being annoyed at the internet not working!!

Day 7 Fri: The most typically english picnic you've ever had....
We met up with the English guys in the park, and found a bit of grass by the lake to sit and eat our picnic on. All was fun...lots of banter! (how i miss being mocked for my crazy ways!!)
Then rain began to fall...but being britis, we decided to stick it out and finish our game of cards!
Then we packed up and went off to play the most craziest and impossible crazy golf you've ever seen!! It was made even more crazy and entertaining by the torrential thunderstorm that decided to start as we all began the 4th hole!! Some holes were actually impossible to get the ball in the hole, others seemed to have no obstacles at all - so we had fun making human obstacles (all very well until certain people called zoezoe decided to whack the ball into my ankle!) We were all drenched by the time we reached the 5th hole and continued to hole 18 in grand form - i even put in a shock hole in one!! Crazy!!

Day 8 Sat: Shopping
Zoezoe made me go to a shopping mall!! (no joke - this was actually zoe's idea not mine!)
I bought my first clothing purchase of the 9weeks so far.
We also bought ice-cream.
Then i phoned up the internet place - and HURRAH!!! The internet works!!!!!


Planned for next week is a trip to the seaside! yay!!

Love you and miss you girlies
xxxx