my 20th bday

Hello Hello,
I woke up this morning in a horrible mood. It was my birthday and all I wanted to do was sleep in. I was so mad at the world too. So I decided that I would go for a walk to try to buy a phone card. All I really wanted to do was call home. I was just in some dire need of talking to someone from home ya know?
So I walk down the road to buy a phone card, I try 3 or 4 stores til I find one that sells them. And like I walk in the store and I wanted to know if it was for long distance calls or cell phones. Well I just wanted to look at them and see what they were for. All of a sudden the woman at the store starts yelling at me (this was my worst moment of communication since being in Europe) and I have no clue why she was yelling at me, and i was so upset that I just left amidst her yelling. And I was hardcore upset and I started crying right in front of the store, on the side of the road in Constanta Romania. I was soo pissed off :)

Looking back it was a funny moment, but at the time i was sooo mad. So i go to one last store and I buy a calling card. I go home to the base and try to make a phone call, and ya its a stupid cell phone card, I was flippin mad. My team was wishing me a happy bday and i was like this day sucks, henceforth and forever more my birthday is cancelled. And you know me, I made a big dramatic display of this.

And also today we were going to this village town city thing called Madgedia. I was not looking forward to it at all. We had to take like an hour bus ride to Madgedia, and still being really madl, I went and sat at the back of the bus by myself. I guess I had fallen asleep and when I woke up there were people sittig all around me and just looking at me. It was really quite funny, but it turns out while I had been sleeping Will my team leader came back and put a little birthday packawe goge beside me, and it was taking up a whole seat where people could have been sitting. It made me feel a little better. and in the card was all the bible verse references to verses about peace...which is what i am seeking right now :) haha...inside story.

But ya we got to the village and it was good, and we met the people who we would be working with. We split up into 2 groups and our group walked around the village. You see Madgedia is a Turkish Muslim, and a Gypsie town. So its a pretty poor town. And we walked around and like people came out of their houses to stare at us, and kids would run ahead and tell people that we were walking by. I truly felt like i was in a different country. More so than any other place yet.
In the afternoon we did a kids program. It was one of the funnest programs ever. I just had so much fun. The kids were so stinkin adorable, I enjoyed myself so much. We did a program and tothen we just played with them. This one guy one my team was holding this little girl on his shoulders and we look and i guess she had ripped pants so her right bum cheek was on his shoulder. It was so funny. These kids were so starved for love and attention. It was really hard to leave them.

In the evening we did a youth program which was a lot of fun too. Actually skipping back to before the programs when we were deciding who would speak and such, I was so mad cuz they wanted me to speak cuz i apparantly have the most in common with turkish muslims and gypsies...im really not sure what that means. but it went really good.

And during each thing my team got the kids/ youth to sing happy birthday in romanian, turkish and english. what are you supposed to do when people sing to you? i just sat there and grinned like an idiot. and it was a joke that the kids thing was my bday party cuz we had balloons and kids and games :)

And so after everything was done, we were leaving and i thought we were going to catch the bus back. but turns out we were gonna go out for supper for my birthday. and the missionaries we had been working with came too. it was so sneaky. we went to this sweet pizzaria. the pizza took so long that we missed the last bus too. it was funny, we ended up having to take a train! my first real train on my birthday! isnt that cool, although on saturday i will start traveling by train everywhere. it was fun. In the train station this guy kept trying to take secretive pictures of us. but i totally knew and so i posed (on his camera phone) and some girls on our team were freaking out that we were gonna e find our faces on naked bodies on the internet. and i thought taht that would be flippin hilarious!But ya I got home and a girl here at hte base who barely knows me had bought me flowers!!! it ,was so cool, and there were little gifts on my bed, and cards from my team, and cards that everyone from new zealand had signed. over all it turned into a good day.

anyways ya tyhis is turning into a book, i shall talk to you soon!
Angee