2. Bakeries are FAR too plentiful and pastries are FAR too inexpensive so that a daily stop isn’t out of the question – and, sometimes, the sole reason to go into town.
3. There’s no better way to announce you’re American than by wearing a bright white ski jacket around a town of Romanians clad in black coats.
4. The Pony Express still exists! It is now called the Romanian Postal System.
5. When you get a craving for Mexican food and ask the grocer for salsa and chips, he gives you ketchup and bread. Luckily, you look up how to make homemade tortillas online and they are amazing!
7. Always be prepared with Lysol and rubber gloves when entering a hospital bathroom in Romania. However, doctors visits (for a teammate) are free!
8. You have no idea why Big Tobacco even cares about the U.S. when they seem to be kept in business and doing amazingly well in all of Eastern Europe.
9. You realize how easily Americans check church off their checklist each week when you sit through three hour long services in a building with no heat alongside Romanians who are joyful to be there.
10. Trying to fit in with the Hungarian university students you are supposed to minister to seems to have the effect of parents donning backwards caps and spouting, “What’s up dog?” to their teenage children…soo not cool. Thankfully, your skills improve as time goes on and amazing friendships are made.
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Please be praying for my team and squad as we are currently en route to Mzuzu, Malawi! We will be doing all kinds of ministry in Mzuzu including evangelism, construction and hospital visits for the month of November. I am excited for this next season of my World Race adventure and I’m grateful for your continued prayers over my health in Africa. I am praying for all of you as well and miss everyone very much! Love and blessings.
