With A Week Left, I Start To Think I’ve been in Romania for about four weeks now. I traveled, I taught, and I told stories. I really am going to miss this place. Here, you can walk without melting, and they have sidewalks! So in the next few days, expect a lot of cheesiness. Also, I’ glad you guys followed me on this amazing, but seemingly short journey.

With A Week Left, I Start To Think

I’ve been in Romania for about four weeks now. I traveled, I taught, and I told stories.

I really am going to miss this place. Here, you can walk without melting, and they have sidewalks!

So in the next few days, expect a lot of cheesiness. Also, I’ glad you guys followed me on this amazing, but seemingly short journey.

It’s been a while since I saw my family. I wasn’t even with them on my birthday. Oh, and remember when you were like “Yo dawg, my family is the best in the world.” I have proof against your statement. Yes, that’s my family. (Click for the GIF)
Camping In Dracula Territory Part One: The Flight to the Carpathians I went camping in the Carpathians a few days ago. The car ride was two and a half hours of landscape morphing from sunny fields to cold, blue mountains.  Romania is amazing. A lot of untouched parts, unlike the grimy landscapes you see on the way to Baguio. If Romanian landscape was a virgin, the Philippine landscape would be its whore rebellious older sister whose parents want nothing to o with. And take note, these landscapes are a mere 90 km from the county’s capital. You can try driving out of a city in the Philippines for two and a half hours, and you’d still be in the city. Then we stopped by this huge-ass dam constructed back in Romania’s communist regime. It may not have been the biggest damn dam I’ve ever seen, but it was pretty big. What I found really awesome was the ass-kicking statue that they put up after the dam’s construction.  They call it the Iron Man, and it represents the dam’s resilience, and the hard work put into creating the dam. I, on the other hand, am convince that it is Romania’s last line of defense in case they come under attack. They can’t fool me, I’ve read books. After a few more minutes of driving, we found a place to camp out in.  And I have to tell you, Romanians are freaking badasses because that place they picked to camp out in? Was on the otherside of the dam. If they opened that mofo dam up, we’d be surfing. But they decided that they wanted somewhere greener. More grass and more trees, so we found a place near this quiet old town. Which was quite reassuring, because I have seen the Blair Witch Project.

Camping In Dracula Territory Part One: The Flight to the Carpathians

I went camping in the Carpathians a few days ago. The car ride was two and a half hours of landscape morphing from

sunny fields

to cold, blue mountains. 

Romania is amazing. A lot of untouched parts, unlike the grimy landscapes you see on the way to Baguio. If Romanian landscape was a virgin, the Philippine landscape would be its whore rebellious older sister whose parents want nothing to o with. And take note, these landscapes are a mere 90 km from the county’s capital. You can try driving out of a city in the Philippines for two and a half hours, and you’d still be in the city.

Then we stopped by this huge-ass dam constructed back in Romania’s communist regime. It may not have been the biggest damn dam I’ve ever seen, but it was pretty big.

What I found really awesome was the ass-kicking statue that they put up after the dam’s construction. 

They call it the Iron Man, and it represents the dam’s resilience, and the hard work put into creating the dam. I, on the other hand, am convince that it is Romania’s last line of defense in case they come under attack. They can’t fool me, I’ve read books.

After a few more minutes of driving, we found a place to camp out in. 

And I have to tell you, Romanians are freaking badasses because that place they picked to camp out in?

Was on the otherside of the dam. If they opened that mofo dam up, we’d be surfing.

But they decided that they wanted somewhere greener. More grass and more trees, so we found a place near this quiet old town.

Which was quite reassuring, because I have seen the Blair Witch Project.

I went camping in the Carpathian mountains over the weekend. :D I’ll talk about it more in the future. Look out for it!
Pitesti, the city I’m staying in, has amazing greenery. A twenty to thirty walk from my dorm could take me to a large natural park, Trivale Forest. There, kids can play, couples can hold hands, and you can even camp out there.  The grass is green, and the wind cools what the sun warms, giving you the comfort of a nice sunny day without the sweaty humidity. Amazing.  Come on Philippines, when am I going to be allowed to frolic through a Forest thirty minutes away from my house?
I arrived with a backpack and my camera to my dorm room. Empty. Five beds, and there was only me.  This would be my life for six weeks. I would sleep and wake up alone in a room made for five.  Challenge accepted.