avec plaisir!

friday was more calm. and my kiddies were too. good thing. i was slightly nauseous at the beginning of the morning, and feared the worst. but it turned out to be a good day. also, popcorn popping was a favorite. they loved it.

hospital. babies. need i say more? yeah, i know. also, i've had so much practice with diaper changing just this week? by the end of the summer i'll be able to set records. haahaha. love them kiddies.

last night. best part of being in romania so far. i know, big statement, huh? just you wait.
after skyping with megan and rosemary (program directors), we decided to go on an adventure to find kaufland (a store kind of like smith's, or something? i don't know quite how to describe it. just a grocery store.) anndd we might have had no idea exactly where we were going. we just knew a general direction. so we walked. and walked. and when we thought we should have found it, we asked some people on the street. and they led us in a given direction. so we walked some more.

after a bit of winding through the streets of iași, and a whole lot of me loving that i live in europe. i was walking the streets of europe. and it seemed so natural to me. welp, we were confused again as to why we had yet to run across this silly place! never fear. at the next intersection, we asked a fellow walking past, unde este kaufland? don't you fret. this guy parted from the friend he was walking with, and motioned for us to follow! don't freak out family. there was a big group of us. completely safe. and then upon realizing we definitely didn't know a ton of romanian, he kind of laughed and said, i know french, not english. can i repeat that? FRENCH. i know. so he and i had a nice little chat as he led us there. nothing big. mostly marveling that we both knew french. and then he told me how he did. and asked us why we were going to kaufland. and then said he had to go home and talk to his family. maybe more. maybe less. i don't remember fully at this point. but seriously. i was in love with life. times a million. and concluded that i could live in europe for the rest of my life, living a life like this if it were in france. you know, where i actually can fully understand life. long story short? made my life. really. i love this place. it was surreal. and beyond hilarious. i love being in europe.

kylee is obviously super stylish. all. the. time. it kills us.

well, ok. michael probably doesn't care. but whatever. you get the idea.

our goal at kaufland? get stuff to make chocolate chip cookies! slash chocolate to break up since they don't have chocolate chips here. welp, they don't have brown sugar either. soo they weren't the best cookies ever. but. they were pretty good. and it was a nice little evening to end our first week!
week one: CHECK!
ten to go! will it go by too fast? probably definitely. then again, this week felt like the longest of my life. but then suddenly it was over. it's going to go too fast. i can tell. i keep telling myself i have three more months still. and then i realize i've now been here almost two weeks, and after next week, we only have 2 months left! oh my dear. keep being kind to me, romania. i'm lovin it. straight up. dead serious. love.

next goal? figure out how to not be so tired all the time. ready, set, go. there's just too much to see!