Errands and Research

The past few days have been fairly regular around here. After our wonderful pancakes on Sunday, we headed out and saw "The Duchess" at one of the older theatres in Bucharest. It was a nice theater with a large screen. Luckily, it was fairly warm outside, so the lack of heater didn't really affect us until towards the end of the movie. We both enjoyed the film, despite the sad story. Apparently it had rained while we were in the movie, so it had cooled down a bit. After the movie, we walked next door to a bookstore that some folks had mentioned to us called Curturesti- a great bookstore with about 4 floors. The store had a large selection devoted to travel guides to many destinations, as well as a substantial collection of art books. It also had a room devoted to English language books, 2 rooms of CDs and DVDs, as well as typical bookstore holdings. The main purpose for our visit was that we had been told they sell posters and we are in need of some decorations in the apartment. We found a couple we liked, as well as a pocket map of Bucharest and also a Yankee Candle in my favorite scent of theirs-clean cotton. On our way out, we noticed a nice children's lit room and a tea room. This place was great and I have a feeling we will be visiting it again.

Yesterday was a pretty typical Monday- B went back to his research and I ran errands (3 grocers and the dry cleaners) and had my tutoring session. After all of the running around, we were both exhausted and opted to use one of the boxes of Mac 'n Cheese we brought with us for dinner- it was good and comforting, especially with some Tony Chachere's on top- yum! This morning I awoke with very sore shoulders- probably from all of the grocery bags and took it slowly in the morning. B went back to researching and I eventually went to Starbucks to review for my Romanian class over a cappuccino and then went back to the grocery store for some forgotten items. When I returned home, I spent some time working on judging some essays for a contest for Romanian high school students about what they feel the most important human right is (as outlined by the UN- this is the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Universal Human Rights) and then headed to class. When I returned, B and I were working on a late dinner (at about 9PM) when the cable repairmen, who were supposed to come at 6PM- cable guys are the same everywhere, I think--arrived. After all of this, we finally ate and are just resting a bit before bed. We have plans to meet with some friends tomorrow evening, which should be fun. -S