The Top 5 Things I Heard While I was in Romania

I love Romanians because they speak their minds. A culture after my own heart. So naturally, we heard some pretty good stuff while we were there last week, and I made a point to write them down. Some were things I just witnessed, and others were things that some of our dear Romanian friends and church members said to us. Here are the top five (translated into English, for your convenience, unless you prefer it in Romanian, then I will write that down too)

5. We were touring Peles Castle, and in our group was a three year old who started getting antsy and really loud. Another lady in our tour group blurted out to the parents
"We came here to hear about the castle, not hear your kid! Why did you even bring him to something like this?!?"
 Oh, I love the boldness. Sometimes I wish Americans were more like that. But we're just so obsessed about not offending people.

4. A friend of Victor's: "You got fat"
   Another friend of Victor's, literally like a day later: "You lost weight"

3. An elderly branch member who knows both Victor and I:
   "It's good that you two got married, because you're more calm, and he's more spicy."

2. Another elderly branch member:
   "So, does he love you?? Because if you say no, I'll beat him."

And for the best one I heard, and this was a hard decision here, people!

1. A friend of Victor's (and the same one who told him he got fat)
  "So, you married a black guy: how do you feel about that?"

So there you go! And in case you didn't infer it from this post, we had a wonderful, fantastic time in Romania. Here's a picture to prove it:

And look! We finally are wearing different clothes! And sandals!

Obviously, more posts to come.
Love, Annie