Friday, October 13, 2006

Thursday night I slept horribly again. Finally around 5 or 6 I got up and went to the restroom and went to the couch. I stayed there til Shannon came to ask me how I was feeling around 8. I told her I wasn’t sure, because I wasn’t sure if I felt sick still and she wasn’t really sure about herself either. We decided to not try and risk it with Dancu again, like the day before but to try to go to the hospital instead. Sometime during the day we went to Hala and got some groceries. I waited with the groceries at the bench outside the grocery store while Shannon went and got us bread and then we went home. I was struggling the whole time and just felt really tired and weak and nauseous, especially when walking through the food stands at the piazza. I decided I probably shouldn’t try to go to the hospital if I was feeling that way, so I slept and Shannon went. After the girls got back home I went with Jessica to go get apples for the Halloween Party. We also got some pumpkins from one of the food stands. It was a definite cultural experience. First we got one price from the young man there. Then, as we were paying his old grandma came and upped the price. It was way too expensive, so we were like “No, and walked away.” She came running after us and was like “no no no.” Then she tried to convince us to get this other pumpkin and we didn’t really need it, so we were like “no.” Then she brought the price down more and we still said no and started walking away. Finally her son came running up to us with it, offering it for 5 Lei (which is like 2 bucks), so we finally took it. Very entertaining. When we got home it was immediately time to get ready for the party. The girls before left us a bag full of costumes. I found a cape and decided I’d wear a black shirt, black pants and black shoes and would have Shannon put makeup on me and a stream of blood going down from the side of my lip and I’d be a vampire. I didn’t have time to get the costume ready before going, so she’d just do it there. Jessica and I were the last to leave and she had to go get tea lights at Hala. So, I wore her awkward, pumpkin filled backpack and, with a huge tub (for apple bobbing) in my arms I walked through the Festival crowds to the Kebab stand to get a Kebab and wait. You ever have one of those moments when you can just feel all the eyes boring into you and you feel like you are a human island, floating in this sea of people, the only thing to see for miles? Yeah, that’s about how it was. Anyway, finally we got to the villa after a long, awkward and actually quite painful walk. The first part of the party was quite stressful, what with arriving late and having to simultaneously set up the apple bobbing booth while completing my contest. Luckily, I found Dave looking like a lost, but especially a bored puppy dog and instructed him to go get people to apple bob while I got my face painted. It worked like a charm. Then, in my great amazement, my costume was a hit! The makeup looked fabulous and I got a lot of “ooooh! Wooow!” comments. The rest of the party consisted mostly of just walking around and laughing with people and pretending to be a vampire. Also, lots of pictures. It was fun. Little Patricia decided to draw a heart and write “I love you” on my arms, which I thought was priceless. Even more priceless was the fact that my efforts at explaining how to spell “I love you” to this Romanian child yielded a very puzzling “A EOFE YOU.” Fun as the party was, however, by the end I was really worn out, feeling a little nauseous and not at all feeling up to walking home with a bucket. Lucky for me, Bri was feeling generous and actually walked most of the way home with the bucket. As soon as I got inside, I basically just fell onto the bed and crashed. It was a good thing the next day was Saturday too, cuz I was tiiiired. Alas, I once again had a horrible time sleeping though. It was all made worth in though, just for the moment when at 4am I awoke, and stumbled to the bathroom only to startle myself when upon peering into the mirror I found, not my usual self, but a sleepy, ratty haired vampire looking back at me. Definitely forgot about the makeup and had a good middle of the night, middle of the bathroom laugh at myself.