A Constanta Day

September 20, 2007

So we slept a lot of the day today, until about noon. We were all completely exhausted from the train ride. Once everyone was up and going we decided to get a tour of the city. Our friend Vaislae who is currently going to college in Iasi but is from Constanta showed us around. It was great having someone there who knew the area and was willing to help us out.

We went and walked by the beach and saw all of the old parts of the city. It was really cool because we saw the remnant of walls and foundations that were from 400 B.C. When Constanta was actually under Roman rule.

We also went to the mall. I am really starting to not like the cigarette smoke. Everyone smokes here and everywhere. They don't really have laws against smoking in public places and since everyone smokes it can be sort of overwhelming at times.

Then we went over to the villa for the Constanta branch. They were having a surprise birthday party for one of the member of the branch presidency. It was really fun to go to an actual Romanian birthday party. It was of course Americanized because all of the missionaries were American and we were all American. One of the missionaries there taught me how to play Backgammon. I guess it is a really big thing here and that everyone plays it. It is actually really really fun. I was a little confused at first but I caught on and it was fun.