We made it!

Hello from Romania! Over the next few weeks we will be sharing highlights of our experiences in Romania. So here's what we have so far!

After a few minor glitches with making sure our bags were all going to end up in Romania our team met in New York to start the trip. After the long flights to London and a short run to the new terminal we boarded our flight to Romania. Once arriving and getting through passport control (which took some time because their computers weren't working for non Europe passports for a while) we went in search for our luggage. We were a little worried because of the problems we had originally checking in, but thankfully we had everyone but Caleb's bag. We found out later the someone took his bag accidentally and came back a little later to return it. Unfortunately we had already left the airport. However, the bags should hopefully be getting delivered some time today.

Once through the airport the adventure of catching a train in Romania began. Dr. G thankfully knows a small amount of Romanian and that got us to the bus that would take us to the train station. However we weren't totally sure how to pay or do anything else. Thankfully there was a man that was on the bus that showed us what we needed to do and even helped up once we got to the train station! At first we were a little worried that he wanted something, but in the end he just wanted to help. The train was extremely warm with our whole team and all our luggage in one small compartment but as the sun started setting it began to cool down some. The trickiest part of the train ride was getting off. We had exactly one minute to get the large amount of baggage, and ourselves down the narrow aisle and off the train before it would take off. And since we were in the very back of the train we had to take a short walk beside the tracks to the actually train station where the cars were. Kevin (whom we are staying with) and two other missionaries were there to met us and take us to Kevin and Michelle's house.

They have made some changes since I stayed here last year. There is now a good size room by the bedrooms for team meetings, and they have also installed air conditioning which is very nice since it is very hot outside. We got in around 10:30, had dinner and went to bed since we had been traveling since the morning before.

This morning we were able to sleep in a little in hopes to be all rested for the days to come. This morning we practiced some of the songs that we are going to be singing while we are here and figured out the plans for the following week. After lunch it was time to get the laptops out and make sure they all worked and had everything we needed on them, along with getting ride of some stuff that we wouldn't be using.

Thank you for all of the prayers as we traveled! Please continue praying as our team works in Drăgăneşti this week and for the 3 classes we will be holding!