3/24

So.. I guess it is aobut that time when I should write in this thing again!!! :)

Well lets see...Not this past weekend, but the weekend before... I went on a hike! :) It was absolutely amazing. The view was wonderful!! The day started out horribly, it was wet, windy, and very icy so we went into the city of Brasov to wait it out for a few hours. While in Brasov we got some coffee, visited some of the historical churches, and browsed around . By the end of those few hours the sky had really cleared up, so we decided to go for it! I love hiking,I really do... but Romania has really made me despise snow and ice! For about 95% of teh hike I had either thick snow, or ice underneath my feet. It was quite challenging and VERY slippery... heh... when we were coming down I just wanted to take off my jacket and slide down becuase it was so hard to actually grip my feet! haha... I will try to post some pictures from that day :)

The day before we went on the hike my other host sister, Alexandra came home! She has been in Germany since September doing an exchange program for HS students, and she is on her spring break! This is her last week home, and I hate to see her go! She has been such a joy to have around the house, and is so much fun to hang out with!!

So....last week I realized that I wouldnt be having an Easter celebration this year because I am leaving before Orthodox Easter (which the romanians celebrate), and the Hungarian, and Germans, and Americans and whoever else celebrated Easter this past week! (yesterday) So... I decided that this just wouldnt happen! I just really felt the need and want to participate in some form of Easter service.... so Mel, Dorothy and I decided to go to the German Lutheran Easter Service at the church on the hill. I had to wake up at 545 because teh service was at 7 am, and it is quite a walk to the top of the hill! :) It was such an amazing service! It reminded me of a sunrise service back home. The wicked cool thing about this service though is that it begins in teh back of the church... everyone walks in together, and we sang a song. Then there were doors in the ground that opened up to a staircase...we walked down these steps and entered the crypt. For those of you who dont know what that is- it is where they used to keep the dead... Yeah, but anywyas... we went into the crypt (kind of like being in the tomb) and had some candles dispersed throughout to give off a sense of light. After some scripture readings, and some songs we went back into the sanctuary that was lit and sang some more songs, and read more scripture etc. It was wonderful.

After the service, everyone was invited to go to breakfast at the parish house. It was lovely. Everyone was given a red hard boiled egg, and as much sweet bread and coffee/tea as we liked! We all sat at this HUGE table... like 25 ppl on each side! It reminded me of the Waldon family Christmas! haha... But anways... I asked Dorothy about the red eggs... because I thought that was kind of random. I guess that the Romanians believe that one of the"mary's" brought a basket of red eggs (representing christs blood) to the tomb the day that they went to visit Jesus' grave.... so the tradition is to dye eggs Red, and eat them on Easter! :)

Yeah.... so those are some of the highlights from the past 10 days! :) Hope you enjoyed some of it! :) love and miss you all <3