LA MULTI ANI
multi ani treasca, multi ani treasca, la multi ani!!!! ( happy birthday to you, Lisa, Dad, mikey)

Romanian men look young. THis guy Silvius was 25 and i swear he looked 20. It was an interesting night. NOt at all like a date which was relieving. He came with his sister and they dominated the conversation. i feel like people just want to meet me to practice their english and that is depressing. We spoke in english and i hestitated to use my broken romanian. when i did try to say something in romanian their faces twisted up in a look of total confusion as to what i was saying and so i shut up. english is safe but i am getting frustrated with it. what was the point of coming here if i can't even pick up conversational romanian? What is the point if no one will be patient enough to let me try? wow this has been a load off my mind. i needed a little venting session. The conversation was pretty typical. Both he and his sister study computer science at a flashy private school in Bucharest named American University. Everything was going well until they made some snide comment about too many gyspies and then they lost me to the food. I can't handle those racial slurs. It isn't a faux pax (or however you spell it) to rave about the "degenerate" gypsies, I have heard it all before, but i wasn't up to filtering my conversations last night. Once I was actually told that gypsies have a gene that makes them lazy. Not every one is like that though. On the up side i am going to Tirgoviste this weekend for a PCV birthday party. Josh is turning 27. It should be fun or at least a diversion from the usual laundry and god knows what else.