Normal in Romania
Some people have been asking me what life looks like in Romania. We have only been gone for a month but already life has become normal. I’m going to use this blog to tell you what some of “normal life” is like.
- Its “normal” to take a bus filled with people to the city.
- Its “normal” to use pink toilet paper that is scented.
- Its “normal” to throw away said toilet paper in the trash can.
- Its “normal” to take toilet paper with you wherever you go because otherwise the bathroom has none.
- Its “normal” to walk throw corn fields to get to the ministry for the day.
- Its “normal” to sit at the Zanza café and lounge for hours because you have to be out of the house between noon and 7pm.
- Its “normal” to come home to you other people staying at your house that you don’t know.
- Its “normal” to have your ATM card turned off and your bank stop transactions because they believe it’s stolen.
- Its “normal” to live in a house with 11 people and 9 of them are girls.
- Its “normal” to attend a wedding, visit a castle, and go to an orchestra all in one week!
- Its “normal” to bring your headlamp with you wherever you go, because you don’t know when you will get home.
- Its “normal” to be at a local restaurant and have people from the city come up to you and ask for money and food.
- Its “normal” to wait for a bus for over an hour and then decide to hitch hike with 11 people into the city to meet the pastor.
- Its “normal” to have ambulances fly by you all day with the sirens on.
- Its “normal” to have the gypsies eating dinner at the local McDonald’s
- Its “normal” to walk to the bus stop and have children run out to you and say goodbye goodbye
- Its “normal” to have Joseph the painter show up in your room to check the windows and smell like whisky early in the morning.
- Its “normal” for everyone in the house to be on Skype talking to someone from back home every night.
Even though all these things have become normal it is still hard to believe that our first month in Romania is almost over. We will be leaving our ministry contact on the 10th and heading to Moldova on the 11th. It seems like just yesterday I was writing you and letting you know how we traveled here and all the delays that it took to get here. God has shown up this month in my life in many ways, and I’m excited to see what he is going to do next month in my life and in the lives of people I’m around.
