How to spot an American at the airport

a. will be wearing sweatpants, most likely with flip flops
b. will be talking in a loud voice

(Impressions from Heathrow, after standing over 2 hours in the Immigration line along with a United flight)

Flight at 6:40am, and at 5:10 I was still sleeping

Let’s begin with it was Vlad’s fault, it always is.
We over-slept after a long walk in the city. I panicked.
Got to the airport in 10 minutes flat.
Did not cry when I said good-bye
Cried like a baby on the flight
German efficiency landed me 30 minutes earlier in London
Immigration took forever. Arrgh!
Welcome to London, baby!

Things I’m looking forward to when I get home

· Booking my flight back to Timisoara

· Seeing my mum and giving her a big hug =)

· Spending time with my family

· Sleeping on my bed

· Meeting my friends

· Eating halal chicken

· Going out in flip-flops

· Attending college

· Relaxing

Things I will miss from Timisoara

• Vlad, Liana and Marianna
• Going to Unirii everyday
• Waking up to Italian mocha made by Marianna
• Walking (shocking isn’t it?)
• Eating yogurt for breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Late night conversations with Marianna
• Going to Aurora and Flavia on Sundays
• Cooking in the dorm with one pot and pan
• Bierhaus, Bunker, D’Arc, Colisee (enough said)
• Romanian mothers
• Romanian language (I really got used to it, even though I hardly understood it)
• Going swimming in a 28 degree pool when outside it was 15 degrees
• Greek salad at Ready’s
• Super fast internet (3rd fastest in the world)

Things I’m glad to leave behind in Timisoara

· Trying to make the stupid washing machine work every week

· The horrible rainy weather during the last week (8 degrees and rain throughout)

· Crazy drivers out to kill you

· Fried cheese (like Liana would say ‘cancer!’)

· Mamaliga – no matter how hard I tried, I never quite liked it

· Eating vegetarian food

You know a celebrity

People, get out your autograph books, I'm famous in Timisoara!

A newspaper wanted to interview Oana Petrescu and me about our respective exchanges. Oana spent 6 months in Nagpur this year and of course she spoke about cows on the streets. These white people, they can never come up with anything new.

The article is in Romanian, so I doubt if any of you can understand what it says about me. Let me enlighten you, it says that I'm smart, intelligent and charming (I managed to fool the journalist by using big words. Thank god I took a good English class in high school).

I also spoke about how quiet it was here, and that if I had to live in Timisoara for longer than 2 months, I would be depressed.

I have to wait for one of my lazy Romanian friends to translate the rest for me.

Here's the link to the article.
http://papillon-ul.blogspot.com/2010/05/lumea-globalizata-e-chiar-mica.html

My boss trusts me (haha)

Are you surprised with number of new posts I'm writing on the same day? I, the world's laziest person, is actually sitting down in front of the laptop and not doing something more productive like Facebooking.

How did this miracle happen?

Well, my boss decided that I should work from home today.Mistake No.1 !

I woke up at 10am. I don't even remember what I ate for breakfast, maybe some mouldy milk with cereal. (Note to self : please buy some real food. No chocolate isn't food). I dragged myself to the shower, and got dressed in pajamas.

Hey, don't judge me. If I have to work, I might as well be in something comfortable!

Then, I wrote a couple of blog posts. Trying to avoid working for as long as possible. I was window-shopping online for a bit, like I can actually afford $1000 bags. Dream on.

Finally, it was time for lunch. I'm sure the Romanians with their super fancy heels and dresses won't take it kindly to the fact that I show up for lunch in pajamas. Instead,I stayed home and ate some bhel puri for lunch.

Mistake No.2. I added three type's of chutney's for good luck. And within an hour, I was in the toilet.

Damn these Europeans, they got me used to the fact that even black pepper is a spice. I'm going to have some troubles when I get home.