How often do you read a book, and while you're reading it you relize this might be your favorite book ever...not too often.

manalive by G.K. Chesterton, it has intrgiue, adventure, romance, great charatcers, a thrilling legal scene, and best of all, Joy.

it just might be my favorite book ever.

That was the complete contents of a reply to a letter I had sent.

Yeah, I got the message.

Fair enough

Wow, I am going to try to explain what happened yesterday, but as an American convery, who had never seen a multitude of relics or the faithful gathered together, it's going to be tough to even come up with the correct words ( Read more... )

This evening we walked to a little park, okay a very large park with a lake and fountains and lots of food stands and boats for the lake. It was really beautiful. As we walked in, two rows of bells were playing classical Romanian songs as if to welcome the evening guests and there were many to greet. Every private nook had two romantic teenagers ( Read more... )

We celebrated Thanksgiving a day late this year because the dicovery of America is not an English Holiday and no one will claim to have discovered England ( Read more... )

Romanians cross themselves on the train, or bus whenever they go pass a church, This public display can do a lot for a girls emotions ( Read more... )

There are tiny frogs in the pond that shows where the original church's alter was. After a fire distroyed the orginal church, set near on side of the monesary wall, a new one was set up a bit futher away and the pond was set as a memorial, and also so that people would not walk raound in a place that once held the body and blood of Christ ( Read more... )

...Distiguish first and secondclass, not by the number of seats, but by whether or not the cabins are air conditioned or not. We were in second class and the tempreture easily reached 120 degrees farenheit throughout the trip. I might have lost weight just from persperation of our traveling sauna for 16 hours. I tried to sleep through most of it ( Read more... )

New look, hopefully bringing with it a new idea, also a place to put down my Romania recolections and what goes through my head while across the pond, got to do something while it rains ( Read more... )

Ok, so except for complaining a lot about a difficult time to complete strangers ( and a few friends) I really don't use this, but whatever ( Read more... )