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I've been quite lazy lately and not in the writing mood...it must be from the weather:)) What has been on?...Well first weekend after getting back from India we organized a bike trip to Caldarusani Monastery. Although we knew there would be about 70 km to the monastery and back, we were confident in our physical abilities. We settled the meeting point at Obor, around 11. Of course people were late...so we left around 12.

We were 11 at first, but at an intersection 4 of us took another turn. The first 1 hour, one hour and a half was ok...but when we got out of the city in plain field...there was this terrible wind practically holding us back. And that's how only around 4 p.m. we where arriving at the wonderful monastery. There we met with the others and after taking our breaths for a while we headed back as it was getting pretty late.

The way back was awfully paniful...we had to fight the wind again and we were exhausted. It's hard to explain in words how we managed to get back...so I better stop here and talk about something more nice.

Last week I had to go in a mission in Sighisoara and had the chance to rediscover this old city. The first time I went to Sighisoara I was 14 years old I think and it was nice to get to see it now...with new eyes and I amased to see that some places were the same...some were new, but on the overall it was the same city.

Now...I'm back at the office...same old...same old...waitting for Easter...2 more weeks to go:)

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Indians know about Romania

As I already told you, we were the attraction of all the pairs of eyes everywhere we went...and many of them wouldn't stop at just staring, but also making conversation, taking pictures...with or without asking permission...and even if sometimes we felt harassed by their "curiosity" we learned to live with them and go ignoring them most of the time.

I think most of you saw those little movies on youtube where Americans don't know of the existence of such a country as Romania and some not even about Europe....So you can imagine my surprise to see that, even though many of them were illiterate, the Indians knew about Romania, they knew that it's a country in Europe, near to Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and that it's a former communist country. And I am not talking here just about a couple of people...but all of the hundreds that just came to us, said "hello", asked "where are you from?", received the answer, told us anything they knew (most of which correct), smiled and went on.

There's the saying that "curiosity killed the cat", but I didn't even know the right meaning of the word before India...those guys are really curious.

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