hmm

well this is my first post since my great return to the us, almost 2.5 months ago now. I have debated whether or not continuing the blog, i decided to cause sometimes i just have things that i feel like saying and i figure, if its on my bookmark bar i might as well use it lol

anyways, little recap, my april and my went rather smooth just work and play mostly, minus the fact one of dearest and closest friends in the world was hospitalized and almost left us, that would have sucked, anyways here it is mid-june, and im already trying to figure out where the time went. I totaled it up and i will have like a grand 8 days that im actually home during this entire month, but its totally cool with me. I will be in North Carolina til tom, then ill be back home for less then a day, then off to the airport to fly out to Jamaica for a mission trip, then back for 5 days, then to PCB for the annual Spiritual Life Retreat. I just met an awesome dude named Jeremy who is a pastor in Maryville at a church called remedy... this sounds like a place for peoples like me. Anyways im gonna stop rambling...
Keep it Classy and Safe,
DKid

its been a few days

things are going pretty well, im officially an ambassador for Good Samaritan and have raised my first donation for their causes. Im pretty excited at where this can go. I am although missing home a little bit, but it will all be good. I mainly miss the people that I love so much and tacos and monster, but more the people and monster lol. I hope all is well at home and cant wait to see everyone soon.

I heard Lightning once.

Well its been going well here, last night before i went to bed and then heard some huge cracks of lightning, i know hear lightning, you would have to been here to understand. So i went and stood outside and watch the storm brew for a little bit. Its amazing the things u can see when there is so little artificial light, like stars and storms brew at night. Its a really sweet experience.

I have debated continuing the blog when I get back home, any one think that is a good idea. I mean who really wants to read about what I do everyday lol. I may just depends on how i feel about it.
I hope everyone is doing well and can't wait to see everyone when i get back home.

Keep it Classy and Safe,
David

ranch on porkchops and ketchup on pizza.

Both are which concepts I am still trying to grasp while here in Romania. So today has been really awesome  to say the least. Got to spend just hanging out with people my own age which was really cool. Something that i have wanted to do since i got here, see how people my age spend there time. Well i found out it involves playing poker( and if you know me you will know i love me a good game of poker.) sandwiches, movies and music. All of the things rank highly on my list of things i enjoy. So i hung out with these guys i would tell u there names, but truthfully i cant even attempt to spell them, for they are traditional romanian names and they putt the oddest letters in the strangest places when spelling lol. Anyways just had a good time of hanging out and getting to know people in this country that are my own age.

anyways things are continuing to go really well for me here and i have to say i am really glad that i have met some of the people that I have. I am now officially an ambassador for a Romanian organization called ' Good Samaritan' they do alot of the same things we do in chattanooga but here in Romanian, obviously and they have plans to possibly expand into other countries. So when i get back expect me to tell u all about my new found i guess 'job title'

Keep it Classy and Safe as always
David

a breakfast for the history books.

So I just had a breakfast that should go down in the history books for me as the strangest one ever. I walk and the sweet lady who makes most of my meals greets me and talk a little in what very little broken english she knows and what little Romanian I know and she tells me it will just a minute til breakfast i say ok. I she her back there as always getting bread out(literally served with every meal) and then i see her slice up some salam and cheese, so i was think awesome meat cheese and bread, its actually one of my favorite breakfasts here. Well then i see her go to the sink and wash something then cut it up, i couldnt really tell what it was. Then she pulls out a can of potted meat and scoops a huge scope of it on my plate... at this point im getting confused. She hands me my food and its Salam, a soft cheese(im not sure what kind it is but it spreads like butter), bread, potted meat, and cut up radishes. So at this point i think I know i have never had radishes before that i could recall that i really liked and the potted meat looked more like refried beans, but if you know me then you know my mentality to food, try everything once and then try it a second time to make sure the first bite wasn't a bad one. Now I will say i wasn't as apprehensive as when i was served boiled liver and creamed spinach by different people here previously, but I still was a little surprised by the presentation. So I stuck with my ways and tried everything on a piece of like a mini-sandwhich and it all tasted good together so i thought now i have to try it all separately, which i already new i was ok with the salam and cheese, the radishes tasted like really fresh water chesnuts, and i like those so i was ok with them. then all that was left was the potted meat staring me in the face, to my surprise it actually tasted and had the consistency of refried beans with out the beans.. so i ate my breakfast i normally would thanked Bueni(the lady who cooks for me) and now im writing about it.

Keep it Classy and Safe,
David

tonight

Well tonight has been really cool. I have experienced alot in just tonight. I met up with Costica and Razven and we went to Antonio's(a local hangout) and we just had a great time. I got to watch Romania play Bosnia in futball(soccer) and they were winning when i left. The people treat futball just like we treat american football. There was so much excitement and celebration when they would score and displeasure when the other team would make attempts to score. All in all i had a great time just hanging out with those guys and getting to really see how romanians hang out and watch sports.. this to me was alot like watching sports back home. It really made me miss home alot. They asked me about american soccer, I laughed and said it sucked, everyone there agreed that European Soccer Clubs are alot better then there american counter parts. To touch on the rest of day, I just lazed about honestly and did nothing and just a great lazy saturday. In the morning I will be going to church where a couple of the locals attend  and hopefully it will be the up lifting experience i need during what has become an unexpected trying time. Although all I cant really complain I have a roof over my head and a warm place to sleep so I am doing better then alot of people in this world. I was told today that my Romanian is getting better, but i still feel like i have barely begin to grasp the language. I have another meeting with Adi and Nikki tomorrow, about which I am really excited. Hope everyone at home is doing well.

Keep it Classy and Safe,
David

Life is one big improvisation.

So my sister and I, ironically on National Goof Off Day, were joking about Improv and i said Life is one big improvisation. We laughed and i kinda just played it off and normal David banter. Anyways i started to think about it and there is truth in it. Life really is one big improvisation. No matter how hard you try to plan out your everyday life there is no real way to account for everything that happens. For example, I wake up in the morning with a basic idea of the places i will be, but i never no who else will be there so therefore i have to just be ready at the spur of the moment to just improv my life. I know its a little crazy sounding but if you think of it as simply as living life, you are basically improving everything you do.... You feel me?

Keep it Classy and Safe,
David