I honestly thought today would be another one of those days that nothing super exciting happened except perhaps laundry. While that did get done my day was filled with some funny and unexpected surprises. To start the day I got to sleep in till 8:45! It was definitely amazing but I do wish it was longer. But, the reason I got up earlier was so me and one of the girls could go running. Yes, my first actual run since I have been here. It was only about 30 minutes for me, but I am not as out of shape as I thought and it turned into an adventure. We wanted to keep the run somewhere close to a place that is familiar to us. So we decided to run to the orphanage and see where we go from there. Well we ran past the orphanage and thought it would lead us back to our apartments. A few random turns later we are walking/running to try to find our bearings of where we were. I would run ahead and see if anything looked familiar. We had ended up in the back road and neighborhood type streets. Honestly we had no idea where we were. There was a lady walking up the street so we asked her where the Hala Centrala is (the store place right in front of where we live). The only think we understood really was when she pointed in the opposite direction of where we were going. We were like oh great we have no idea what is going on. So we finally just decided to take a taxi back to where we live. That was an experience too since neither of us brought money to pay him for the ride. So Meghan ran up the street to the apartment to get some lei while I awkwardly waited in the taxi to pay him. He charged us 10 lei, which is alot considering Kauflan is only 5-6 lei. But we were so relived to be back and no where we were that all we could do was just laugh. However, the fun the about being getting lost is seeing all of the cool sights we might not have known about before. We even saw a monastery from the outside we didn't really know was there before.
After that we actually did just get ready and go to Kauflan. I started one of my large cultural proofs where I live on a Romanian budget for a week. This is mostly just for groceries. So I took how much the average Romanian would make (about 700 lei for a month) and subtracted things like rent and utilities. Basically for groceries until Thursday I have 32 lei to spend. I still have 4 lei left for groceries so not too bad. It is kind of fun actually. But after we got back I just relaxed while I did all of my laundry. Not overly exciting then but it needed to get done! I only have 2 pairs of scrubs I wear the whole week. One for the hospital and the other I leave at the orphanage. After all the drool, boogers, food, and who knows what else I get on them, it is actually a relief to finally wash them at the end of the week.
The second big adventure happened in the elevator today. After just chilling at the apartment for a little me, two other girls, Petru, and Mihai went to the mall. But on the way down from the apartment we kind of had an accident in the elevator. All 5 of us were in the elevator so someone had to push up on the buttons on the top of the door that make the elevator move even when the doors aren't closed (it tricks it into thinking the doors are closed). So Mihai let go of the buttons or something happened...but anyway we had a huge crash at the bottom. We literally all felt the elevator crash at the bottom. I just knew something like this would have to happen sometime. Mihai had to manually get it to where we could open the door and then climb a step up to get out of the bottom. I was so much in shock that I started to cry! I don't even know why but I was so scared or something. I hate crying in front of people but I just don't know why I did but it was kind of funny it scared me so much. So yes, very adventures. Then when we came back from the mall the elevator was completely broken. It must of broke because of us. It was crazy! Very much an adventure for me- I haven't been that scared from crashing in a while.
But overall today was a really good day just hanging out and having unexpected surprises! So many more are still to come so it will be very fun. Tomorrow we should be planning the final details for our trip in two weeks! Yes all of the details I will tell everyone about as soon as it is finalized. But it should be amazing.
That's all for now! Mare vis,
Dani
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