I got to help treat my first patient today!!!!! His name is Andre and he has muscular dystrophy (Which, coincidentally, if you spellcheck, it comes up as astrophysics). I moved his left leg and arm as Anda worked his right side. I really like the feeling of movement as it glides over my hands, as silly as it sounds. It's really neat to feel a joint and know you're causing that movement. I feel like normally, we don't even realize all the work our body does to make the tiniest of movements. I spent the day in PT, working with the children from the center, doing breathing exercises with a girl with a major heart problem, and measuring kids for new wheelchairs. it was a lot of fun, and Anda is talking care to say things in English so that i'll understand what is going on. I'm definitely learning a lot!
After work, we walked down to the bakery. We've been really intimidated because this place always has a huge line and people rambling off in Romanian. We got some pastry that looked like a cinnamon bun, though it didn't taste it, but was delicious nonetheless. The other pastry we got was really flaky and crossaint like and was covered in a nutella-like frosting. SO GOOD. And the best part? Each was about the equivalent of 70 cents!
Tonight we went to dinner with all the other volunteers, which was a lot of fun. I feel like I fit in a lot more, and they're just a really fun group of people. We're from all over the world (specifically, all over the US, UK, Malaysia, Canada, and Australia). They're just a really nice group of people, which is what I expected when people are coming half way around the world to volunteer. Then we went out to get chocolate fondue and drinks with two volunteers from the UK. The two of them, Manasa, and I are going to visit Rasnov Castle and Bran's Castle (aka Dracula's castle!) tomorrow and invited a few new volunteers to join us. We're not sure who is going to show up, but it should be an awesome day no matter what. I'm charging my camera batteries!
On out way home, Manasa and I were having an intense conversation about recommendations for grad school, because, what else would we be talking about. All of the sudden, the guy in front of us turns around and tells us that he thinks we should get two letters, in perfect, east coast english. We were taken quite aback, because all we seem to hear here is Romanian and sometimes a slight amount of hard accented english. Turns out they were a couple here on vacation from Philly. Small world indeed!
Pictures the next time I blog for sure! I'm excited to visit a real vampire palace. Maybe I should scrounge up some garlic....
te iubesc,
Alyssa
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