Field Trip

On Saturday, we went on a little trip to Sibiu (pronounced C B U) which is about an hour and a half drive from Sighisoara. Which meant that I had to get up at the ridiculous hour, for a Saturday, of 7. When we got there, Dorothy just sort of brought us to the main street and told us she would meet us at 12:30 outside of the town hall. I still don't know where the town hall in Sibiu is. We just sort of wandered around for 2 and a half hours, going in stores, but not really buying anything. I discovered that they have notebooks here in which every page smells like chocolate. We specifically went on this trip to Sibiu because there was a German festival. Apparently, Sibiu used to be mostly populated with Germans, who knew? At one point there was a parade, with all of the couples that were in the traditional German garb and we followed. However, there was a point that Dorothy had us following side by side the parade so closely, that we were practically in it. On the drive back, Dorothy had us go into a Romanian grocery store, saying that it was part of the cultural experience. It's interesting that she said that, because the inside of a Romanian grocery store looks exactly the same as the inside of an American grocery store. On a completely different note, today in language class we learned a song and dance in Romanian. The song was either about walnuts or small boys dancing. It wasn't really clear. Apparently, our teacher wants us to put on a small show before we leave. I hope she was kidding, because the vision I have of us performing the song and dance we learned is laughable.