Spring is coming and almost here in Salzburg. The weather is pretty inconsistent but I think very soon I will pack up my sweaters and scarfs. This week we had snowfall one morning, but now it has been 3 or 4 days in a row of sunshine. My roommate came back on Sunday with a dreadful sounding cough and she could hardly speak. I have stayed healthy and don't think I have allergy season to fear, but with the changing weather I do have a lingering and uncomfortable 'dry' cough.
As a precaution I am not riding the bike this week so I can be healthy and ready for travel over my 2 week Easter holiday/spring break. My dad and sister, Nancy, will be visiting for a week starting on Thursday. There is no other way to say it then to state that Nancy is pregnant. She is pretty pregnant in fact, maybe in month 5 or so. I believe it and know this to be true but I think I will still be surprised when I see her when she arrives.
Over this break I have plenty of school work to keep busy with before, during, and after my travels. If you decide you want to open a bank account or invest some extra cash in Germany or Austria, soon I will know all the right vocabulary to make that happen. Until then all I can tell you is ATM=Bankomat.
I have another photo album about my visit to Romania. I've also saw an NCB news clip that related in a subtle way. It is about shantytowns developing in US cities where homeless people are living together in tents and makeshift 'housing'. The Hungarian pastor, Attila, asked me if I thought America would become poor like Romania because of the financial crisis. For now I'm of the mindset that a lifestyle standard has developed in the last 60 years. We have become comfortable in this norm and will do everything possible to stay relatively close to that standard. People in the video don't seem to have a choice anymore in that matter.
My church here in Salzburg personally delivered their Christmas shoeboxes to orphans and other children in Romania. On a "thank you" brochure there are some stats I can pass on to you. "Over 40 % of Romanians live under the poverty line... Family violence is a daily occurance. One in 5 women experience this in their lives. In Bucharest (capital of ROM.) over 3,000 children live on the streets."
As a precaution I am not riding the bike this week so I can be healthy and ready for travel over my 2 week Easter holiday/spring break. My dad and sister, Nancy, will be visiting for a week starting on Thursday. There is no other way to say it then to state that Nancy is pregnant. She is pretty pregnant in fact, maybe in month 5 or so. I believe it and know this to be true but I think I will still be surprised when I see her when she arrives.
Over this break I have plenty of school work to keep busy with before, during, and after my travels. If you decide you want to open a bank account or invest some extra cash in Germany or Austria, soon I will know all the right vocabulary to make that happen. Until then all I can tell you is ATM=Bankomat.
I have another photo album about my visit to Romania. I've also saw an NCB news clip that related in a subtle way. It is about shantytowns developing in US cities where homeless people are living together in tents and makeshift 'housing'. The Hungarian pastor, Attila, asked me if I thought America would become poor like Romania because of the financial crisis. For now I'm of the mindset that a lifestyle standard has developed in the last 60 years. We have become comfortable in this norm and will do everything possible to stay relatively close to that standard. People in the video don't seem to have a choice anymore in that matter.
My church here in Salzburg personally delivered their Christmas shoeboxes to orphans and other children in Romania. On a "thank you" brochure there are some stats I can pass on to you. "Over 40 % of Romanians live under the poverty line... Family violence is a daily occurance. One in 5 women experience this in their lives. In Bucharest (capital of ROM.) over 3,000 children live on the streets."
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