Week 4

Good morning/afternoon/evening ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and welcome to another existing week of blogging.  This week I was lucky enough to make my way to Bran castle. As well as seeing ever more of this wonderful city.

This week it poured down snow on Brasov, we were up to 5 inches thick of snow, it was also -30 degrees at the coldest. One of the good things about the snow and cold id that the best way of keeping warm is having massive snowball fights. As much fun as they are it can easily be ended when someone gets a massive snowball thrown at their face, which then seeps into their shirt. Really sucks.

Australia day came and passed this last week and with it came the emergence of Australia man, as you see the proud figure standing to the left, forged in the heart of a barbeque, I spent the whole day walking around like that, now before anyone (yes I’m looking at you mum) panics, I have 2 layers of thermals on down there, so if anything I felt too warm rather than too cold. It was also on this day that we bid a fond farewell to 2 fellow volunteers; it is always a sad occasion when people leave. So to celebrate my roommate Josh and I participated in a cheeseburger challenge. We sat down and competed to see how many cheeseburgers each could eat. Unfortunately it turned out that one of Australia man’s superpowers isn’t super digestion, I came in at 7 burgers while Josh managed to pull in a total of 8.

This week we also went to Bran castle. Bran castle is purported amongst tourists as the home of Dracula, and while there was a monarch in Romania called Dracula (which means son of Dracul) the castle actually says that it is unlikely that Dracula spent any time at the castle at all. It is however one of the must see attractions of Romania as it depicts what you would think an old style castle would look like, it was dark dreary and gloomy, and really really cold (did I mention how cold it was over here?). Sunday saw a great contrast to the freezing conditions of Saturday as myself and another volunteer, Dagmar, went to l’aquatic paradise, and large in door HEATED swimming pool. It was absolutely glorious heated swimming pools water sides, diving boards and (this was my favourite) an outdoor pool which was about 40 degrees in the water and -20 above, it was the starangest feeling of hot and cold, but if you had wet hair while you were sitting there it would actually freeze, so cool.

That’s it for another post, I do hope the 2 people who read these are getting a kick out of them, cause I am enjoying writing them. Well I’m off to practice a play and eat lunch, then... well who knows what.

Talk soon Jackson