IN ROMANIA

Well, I'm FINALLY here. I'll try and give a quick overview of how my travels went, but I actually have to be in the hotel restaraunt in 8 minutes for dinner so this probably won't be as in depth as I would've liked.
So the flight from JKF to Munich was miserable and hot and crowded and of course I got stuck in the middle seat of the middle section of the plane. but the cool part was that the plan had two floors and a lot of us got to go down to the lower level and just hang out and talk and enjoy the nice air conditioning they had down there. So we get to Munich and we had like a 1.5 hour layover. I can't really tell you much about the flight from Munich to Bucharest because I fell asleep before the plane even took off...yeah....i was ABSOLUTELY exhausted in every sense of the word. Then we landed in Bucharest and were greeting by a big group of PC(Peace Corps) staff and volunteers who helped us load the bus and head to Ploiesti(ploy-esht). I can't tell you much about the bush ride since I fell asleep before we left the airpot and didnt wake up until we got to the hotel. I'm sitting in the hotel lobby right now using their wireless internet so that was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.
All in all I'm happy, but I'm sooooo tired that all I want to do is sleep. Oh and the 'fishbowl' affect has already taken place and almost every person who i pass on the street or in the hotel looks at me as if I'm the first black person they've ever seen (and I'm 99% sure I AM the only black person they've seen). so I've already had lots of stares and pointing fingers and hushed whispers...but oh well. its not really that bad.
but i've got to run!! dinner is starting now!!!
love you!
monica