My visit to Onesti

So today, Tues. 7/22/08, is my last day here in Onesti. Tomorrow I head back to Ploiesti for my last two weeks of pre service training.

Onest has a beautiful park and it is surrounded by some beautiful rolling hills and small mountains. It’s way cleaner than Ploiesti and there’s not too much pollution which is great.

My school is pretty small but all of the staff that i met seem really nice.

While i was here i had the opportunity to go to Slanic for a day and go to the thermal springs which are up in the mountains. People flock there to drink the natural water straight from the springs because it supposedly can aid in digestions, eye sight and hearing. But basically it’s just like all these little spouts with well water coming out of them and it wreaks of sulfur with that horrible smell of rotten eggs, you know? Anybody whose ever drank well water or water at Procter Camp and Conference knows exactly what I’m talking about hahaha. The water just has a funky smell/taste to it and that’s basically what the water was like at the springs. it was still absolutely beautiful and i really enjoyed walking through the beautiful scenery. I took a handful of pictures and posted them so feel free to check them out.

Other than that I don’t really have much else to say; I’m looking forward to my last day of language class because i don’t think my brain can take any more 4-hour language classes! In 10 days i will become an official peace corps volunteer and i guess that’s when the real adventure begins, right?

I guess we’ll have to wait and see....