Romania language I don’t understand, luckily the people we met speak English.  I liked their ethnic dances, especially their costumes.   Iasi is the birth place of their first national university.  We visited a university there.  The library was well known; it had a big collection of books, documents and library resources.   Students were studying there, a nice place and quiet.  At Iasi, we also visited a magnificent theatre.  Sitting on the balcony seat, I can imagine how people can enjoy the shows at the theatre.

Romania churches are beautiful, some are historical and some are new.  We visited quite a few.  I like European churches a lot, by looking at the pictures, you can tell why.  Eastern Orthodox is the biggest among believers.  We also visited a 14^th century monastery.  The most interesting thing to me was that monastery’s cemetery was outgrown by passed away monks, therefore they had to bury newly dead monks in the ground and dug out older dead monks’ bones and labeled and stored the bones in the basement.  The bones room in the basement was scary.

The last but not the least I want to talk about is Romania Rotary’s projects.  We participated in Rotary meetings there.  There were several projects we visited including Rotary sponsored school library, labs and a boarding school, clean water well project, green park project and Diabetes Foundation etc.

I brought home two special souvenirs from Romania, a pair of dolls and a few decorated colorful and artistic eggs.  I highly recommend them.  Now they are displayed in my display case in the formal dining room.  Whenever I saw the display, it reminded me how special and wonderful Romania trip was.

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