So the weekend was highly enjoyable, and I had nothing to worry about. We went to wooden churches, the Barsana Monastery, Elie Wiesel's house (now a museum of his life), the Communist Prison museum in Sighet and took a trip to the Merry Cemetary but our time there got a bit rained out. But it's okay, because we all took the opportunity to shop in the souvenir markets there.
The night in the inn was nowhere near as wild as last year's, as the night only ended at midnight and fewer bottles of beer and wine were consumed. I had about four and a half cups (let's round it up to five for good measure, oh-ho!) and 1.5 shots of tuica. It was an evening of fun conversation, laughter and much merriment.
I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray in the car ride, and also started and finished The Road (by Cormac McCarthy) by Sunday evening.
The work week so far's been slightly frustrating, as a lot of it was spent detailing walls. For the last two hours today, I got to use the pick, trowel and my bare hands to get the rocks out of a rubble layer; it was great to expend some physical energy.
Right now we're (Val, Annie, Erin, Rob and myself) in Zalau and about to meet for dinner with a Romanian friend of ours, Cristina. Then the rest of the team's going to come down for drinks at a bar here. It ought to be a nice night.
I'm going to be late for that dinner meeting, so I must go!
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Hi Dara,
ReplyDeleteI've been enjoying reading your blog as well as Val's - both fun and interesting. You're doing a lot of reading as well. I just read a Wikipedia description of one of the books you read - The Road, by Cormac McCarthy - sounded pretty frightening.
Love,
Linda
The Road does have some great and scary descriptions but it's not really a frightening book. It's all about a man and his son trying to travel and survive in a dreary post-apocalyptic world, and how they try to maintain their relationship together. It was pretty good, and it's a different narrative style than I'm used to, so it was a change of pace too.
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