Firday, September 29, 2006

Well, our third day at Dancu still wasn’t very good, but it was better than the day before. We worked on Brigance pretty much the whole day. I did it for Petrica and finished pretty much the whole thing and she did it for Iuliana. It was the first day that Mihai wasn’t the largest focus of our attention. I had a little bit of frustration with Constica, because no matter what I did, he just would not get happy. Finally Shannon tried and had the same result, so she took him to the back and he was much happier. We went straight to the hospital again on this day too and I was starving because I didn’t really have any food that I was able to bring with me. On the way to the hospital our tram was stopped because of two guys fighting in the street. One of them was a cab driver and his taxi was stopped in front of our tram, so we had no choice but to just wait there. What we think happened was that the one guy had been crossing the street and he’d tried to cut off the taxi driver or something and made him mad, but we really have no clue. When I became aware of the fighting, the taxi driver had just hit the pedestrian so hard he was knocked to the ground. So I watched as he struggled to stand up. Then, just as he was getting up and before he really had much balance again, the taxi driver came back and started just punching and punching him again and then he went back and got back in his taxi and drove off. The other guy stumbled back up and with a ripped jacket and a bruised and slightly bloody face, he tried to catch the tramvite that was going the other way which had also been stopped like we were because they were actually fighting in the street right in front of it Anyway, at the hospital I don’t remember for sure who I was with, but I think that I started off with Ionella and then went to Iulia. If I remember correctly, I went in with Ionella first and it was way interesting. The room was full of people and as soon as I walked in they just all stopped talking and staaaared at me. I couldn’t really do anything about it while I was changing her diaper, except feel incredibly awkward, but as soon as I was done I picked her up and turned around and was like “buna ziua!” and asked if I could sit on the bed next to the old grandma. She said yeah, so I sat down and did my best “clueless American who’s nevertheless well meaning” impression because then they usually are a lot more compassionate. It worked like a charm and since they were fascinated with me anyway they started talking with me. Just because I had absolutely nothing to say and wanted it to not be awkward silence, I said something like “what are the names of the animals” and pointed to one of the animals on the wall. Well, the room whipped into a frenzy and I had people pointing every which direction at all the different animals exclaiming excitedly what they were all called. I, of course, got absolutely nothing from it because it was so confusing, but I acted very grateful and clueless. About this time the doctors came in and took the attention, which was good because I had no clue what to do next. Also, by this time Ionella was asleep and the nurse told me to put her back in the crib, so I went up to be with Iulia and Shannon. Since she was there and there wasn’t much for me to do I thought I’d go look at the first floor and see if I could find Constantine or Radu. Well, like the day before, the nurses were no help and just said they weren’t there, so I, frustrated decided to go try and find the new baby on the 7th floor. Well, I had no luck there either. Not only did I not find the baby, but I didn’t find Cosmina or Ionut either. So even more frustrated I went back down with Shannon and Iulia. Later, though Shannon and I found Ionut and played with him for a little while. On the way home from the hospital, we were walking down the hill and saw a car run into the one in front of it right as we were meeting up with Megan and Marina on the corner. Ah Romania. That makes 1 dead pedestrian, 1 fight and 2 car crashes that I’ve actually seen in less than a month while I’ve been in this country. Well, after the hospital we came home and rested for a little while and I took a nap and stuff and then we all went to Moldova Mall for a movie with the Podul girls and Mihai. I actually had a lot of fun. At the theaters here you actually buy specific seats, so we had to make sure we sat by each other. The movie we saw was “Click” with Adam Sandler. It was a fairly typical Adam Sandler movie as far as comedy is concerned, but it also had more of a good moral than his past ones, which is what he’s tending toward lately. Anyway, after the movie, for some reason I was laughing a lot, but I can’t remember why. Because I laughed SO hard and walked all the way up the stairs, by the time we got back up to the apartment I was really tired and ready for bed even though it was still pretty early. So I just did a few things and then went to bed.