I had a really good time going on our trip this weekend. First we went to Veliko Teranovo, which used to be he capital of Bulgaria. We took a bus there and ended up missing our stop and kept going for another 100 km. Eventually we figured things out and after wasting 4 hrs trying to get back, we arrived. We walked around, had something to ate and saw some of the sites. At night there is a light and laser show at the old fortress. This place is absolutely enormous and they run the show every night. It was spectacular. I'm really glad we went because I have never seen anything like that before. I have a short video clip in addition to the pictures that I took. They are blurry because it was quite a distance away and the shutter had to stay open in order to absorb the light. After that, we got on the train to Bucharest. After getting on and off a few trains and losing a lot of sleep, we made it to Bucharest around 6:30am. We walked around and drew some money. Their currency is very odd because they both the old currency, which is in the 10,000's, and the new one, which is the same thing w/ 4 zero's off the end. The actual money is great because it's the plastic kind, so it doesn't get dirty, torn, w/e. Bucharest is weird in that it feels like it is made up of little parts of other cities. It was designed like paris, parts looked like Rome, others Vienna, and etc. It brought back a lot of memories from the eurotrip. It was almost creepy how similar some of the things were, but I guess a lot of people have gone through that part of the continent during history, so there's a lot of different influences. The second biggest building in the world is there, the first being the pentagon. This building was absolutely monstrous, along with the city itself. We walked everywhere, and by the end of the day, I couldn't wait to just sit and rest. The weather was really good, which made it much better seeing that it the weather was crappy, we wouldn't have been able to get lost and find some weird/interesting things. Everything in Romania is really cheap, so i'm asking whoever wants something to tell me now so that I can go crazy when I go back in 3 weeks for the Tiesto concert. I really wanted to buy a lot of things when i was in both cities, but the same dilemma of having to carry it around w/ me arose. On the trip back our bodies finally gave in and we managed to fall asleep on the bus and the train, something we couldn't do before because it was so uncomfortable. We got back around 10am and spread to our respective rooms so that we could get clean and rest. It was a really good trip and I had fun with all 3 of the other people. The funny thing is that they're all seniors, so they were 21, 21, and 22.
Bucharest is definitely up there on my list of favorite cities that i've been to, if not the best. The other thing I accomplished this weekend was that Romania is my 20th country that i've visited. So I have now been to more countries than I am years old. I'm hoping to keep this accomplishment for as long as possible, but it of course won't last forever.
I'm glad i finally went somewhere, i didn't really miss anything here, not that I expected anyone to do anything besides drink and party. There is a trip organized by the school next weekend, I think I'll go on it because it's cheap and easy.
P.S. I didn't need anything extra visa-wise, my bulgarian ID card worked just fine.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
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