I will mostly be writing about some transportation issues we have had to deal with here but I want to start by letting everyone know that our campaign is going very well. Look for a posting on Friday explaining our thoughts and comments about it this week.

Since we have such a big group this year, Bubba and Lavinia are not able to drive all of us around to wherever we need to go. It has been mostly left up to us to get from point A to point B. This has caused some challenges because Bucharest is such a large city. I am the main navigator because I've been here enough to know where we are most of the time. We have been confined mostly to busses and the Metro. There is a bus that stops right in front of our apartment and takes us to a good Metro stop. We were excited to learn this morning that one of the busses that stops in front of our house (and there are only two) goes almost directly to our school location. This is good news because it could save us 20 minutes... time we could use to sleep. The Metros are pretty nice. They zip along at a quick rate but you often have to wait up to 10 minutes for one to come. Last night after our classes, we wanted to go to a specific restaurant across town. When we went to get on the bus, we had to fight 100 Romanians for space. We were crammed in so tight that if we had died, we would not have been able to fall over. It was a little uncomfortable but it was a cultural moment and actually pretty funny.

The photo above is of the main train station in Bucharest. Below is a bus in front of the station.