Comments on: Return to Targu Jiu http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/ Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Romerican http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/comment-page-1/#comment-2240 Romerican Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:31:08 +0000 http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/#comment-2240 Chris - Welcome to the show! Thanks for the kind remark. Sometimes I write without a care for what others think, while other times I'm a bit surprised no one seems to care about a piece I'd anticipated getting feed back on. Maybe that makes me an infrequent and inconsistent semi-dramatist. I'm touched to hear about your caring and involvement. Many kids have suffered in the past years with very uneuropean conditions thanks to Illiescu and his PSD ilk. Fortunately, those days are ever-more behind us... as Romania is just on the cusp of first world standards with respect to economics and basic social issues. (Granted, they wouldn't win first place, but then every western nation seems to have its problems.) Just be wary! While a relatively expensive taxi might be safe, the next random ride you get could be a naked man. :O Chris – Welcome to the show! Thanks for the kind remark. Sometimes I write without a care for what others think, while other times I’m a bit surprised no one seems to care about a piece I’d anticipated getting feed back on. Maybe that makes me an infrequent and inconsistent semi-dramatist.

I’m touched to hear about your caring and involvement. Many kids have suffered in the past years with very uneuropean conditions thanks to Illiescu and his PSD ilk. Fortunately, those days are ever-more behind us… as Romania is just on the cusp of first world standards with respect to economics and basic social issues. (Granted, they wouldn’t win first place, but then every western nation seems to have its problems.)

Just be wary! While a relatively expensive taxi might be safe, the next random ride you get could be a naked man. :O

]]> By: chris http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/comment-page-1/#comment-2218 chris Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:35:11 +0000 http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/#comment-2218 i love reading your stories- you tell them so well, but this sentence made me laugh out loud! and then when i got to the part about the naked (?) driver in the dachia, i almost snorted soda out my nose. only in romania! we adopted a romaniac seven years ago. i've been back to help with child-welfare projects a half-dozen times since then, so romania is the land of my heart rather than my birth. rock on! i love reading your stories- you tell them so well, but this sentence made me laugh out loud! and then when i got to the part about the naked (?) driver in the dachia, i almost snorted soda out my nose. only in romania!

we adopted a romaniac seven years ago. i’ve been back to help with child-welfare projects a half-dozen times since then, so romania is the land of my heart rather than my birth.

rock on!

]]> By: Romer!can - Dispatches from an American in Transylvania http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/comment-page-1/#comment-2162 Romer!can - Dispatches from an American in Transylvania Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:04:59 +0000 http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/#comment-2162 [...] Arriving in Targu Jiu late at night by ocazie, I ventured through maze of happily chatting customers poised on the open terrace and into the well-appointed interior of the pizzeria when I’d been dropped off. [...] [...] Arriving in Targu Jiu late at night by ocazie, I ventured through maze of happily chatting customers poised on the open terrace and into the well-appointed interior of the pizzeria when I’d been dropped off. [...]

]]> By: Romerican http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/comment-page-1/#comment-2158 Romerican Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:36:28 +0000 http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/#comment-2158 Thanks, John. You and I may be the only ones who liked it, based on feedback. That or people really don't read more than one paragraph. Or they're commies. Yeah, that's it... good ol' PSU done taught us well... Thanks, John. You and I may be the only ones who liked it, based on feedback. That or people really don’t read more than one paragraph.

Or they’re commies. Yeah, that’s it… good ol’ PSU done taught us well…

]]> By: John http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 John Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:30:53 +0000 http://romerican.com/2006/09/01/return-to-targu-jiu/#comment-1952 Nice story! I graduated with honors from that same university! Nice story! I graduated with honors from that same university!

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