Day 24 in Romania: last day

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My mom's aunt called and said she couldn't see me because she was working. Her husband came instead though with a onesie for the baby. It's for 6 months, which is great since I have a lot of smaller things.

It's hard to believe that it's time to leave after nearly a month here.

I had lunch with my lawyer's wife. It was Italian, ok, nothing special. We were in the non-smoking section which was about the size of a closet since everyone seems to smoke here.

My flight leaves in the evening, so I'm going to take the bus in the afternoon to the airport. I have a layover in Qatar.

It'll be nice to finally get home.

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Day 23 in Romania: lazy day in Bucharest

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My mom's aunt called in the morning a couple times, but I didn't get the call because I was listening to the radio and playing solitaire on my phone and when she called, it just shut off.

I bought some chocolates to take back to Korea and I'm going to meet my lawyer's wife for lunch tomorrow.

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Day 22 in Romania: relaxing in Bucharest

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Two more days left, my how times flies. I decided to relax today so I got a pedicure and had my eyebrows done. Supposedly the shop where I went was famous. I got the pedicure then they told me to wait. So I waited, and waited, and waited. I finally couldn't stand it anymore when the guy next to me started to smoke, so I finally asked them. They asked me if I had an appointment. I said no, but I had just had a pedicure. So I got taken to get my eyebrows done. They didn't thread or wax them, just plucked them, but they look great. The pedicure didn't really impress me. I asked for a spa one, but I think they just gave me a regular one.

I went to pay and they just charged me for my eyebrows. I had to remind them about my pedicure. There were probably about 7 other clients there and about 15 workers, most of whom were just sitting around and chatting.

For the record, the pedicure cost about 55 lei about $20usd) and the eyebrows were 30 (about $10 usd). In Peru, a pedicure would probably run about $5 and eyebrows would be $2. In Korea a pedicure is about $20. In the US a pedicure would be at least $60 and eyebrows are around $15 for threading.

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Day 21 in Romania: how to mail a package in Bucharest

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I was supposed to meet up with two friends today, but they both cancelled and I'm really running out of things to do in Bucharest. I tried to send my mom the Gerovitals. It was a nightmare. For anyone who thinks that Communism fell in Romania, they should try to send a package overseas.

First post office: The smallest box they had could fit a computer monitor, so I left.

Second post office: Got completely lost trying to find it as everyone kept sending me the wrong way. I ended up in a parking lot at one point. Again, no boxes, but they told me to go to the supermarket and get one. Who'd have thought that post offices would actually stock boxes?!

Supermarket: Got a small box.

Back to the second post office: They don't send packages overseas, but gave me the address of a post office that did.

Third post office: Nope, they don't send packages overseas either. They sent me to another one.

Fourth post office: Went to one line, the sent me to another, which sent me to another. Yea! They send packages overseas. It cost $20 usd to send 3 dinky 50ml jars of Gerovital. I hope my mom gets them, because they took away the package to stuff newspaper in it. Once I signed everything I realised that I have absolutely no idea if the jars are in the box or not.

It only took 4 hours to send a package overseas. Must be a record or something. If you ever go to a post office in Romania, don't expect them to have: envelopes, boxes, tape, glue, scissors, or pens.

For those of you who are interested, here's the address of the post office that will send packages overseas. Good luck finding it, that's the extent of the address on the receipt, though if you ask someone, they should know since it's a big post office. The phone number (I think) is 0800806806
Posta Romana
Bucuresti, Dacia 140, sec 2
Retea Postala CRRP Bucuresti
Bucuresti 3 of Jud B

As a reward I went to McDonald's. I asked for ketchup and they wanted me to pay. Needless to say I didn't. Ketchup should be free.

My husband's passport copy and our marriage cert arrived, but it's the wrong marriage cert. It's the one from before Peru entered the Hague Agreement, so has no apostillise. I'll have to show him where the docs are when I get home. Though I'm estatic that he sent the stuff so fast. We also need him to sign a document saying that I can change my name and giving me permission to register our marriage. Why simplify things when you can make them more complicated? I was told that before Romania was giving Moldovians passports easily and the EU told them to stop. So now they're complicating everything.

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Day 20 in Romania: shopping in Bucharest

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I thoroughly enjoyed couchsurfing with the Goduns. They were very kind and I got an idea about Romanian families and life that I wouldn't have gotten by just staying in a hostel.

It's St Mary's Day and Monday so nothing's open. I bought some more Gerovital for my mom and I'm going to try to send it from Romania. It's funny because in the shop windows they have L'Oreal and other brands and the Gerovital is hidden inside the store. Yet any woman I talk to from Romania swears by it. I've bought 3 jars for my mom of different creams and one for me.

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