A visit to a local Monastery

Romania has many monastaries. Most of the population is Eastern Orthodox. The churches are beautiful and beautifully decorated. We went to a local one about 12 miles outside of Vaslui. It was located on the top of a hill and has a beautiful view. You can tell that the priests were in charge at one time because the monasteries have the best views. The pictures above are from the monastery I was able to visit last night.
The first picture is from the outside looking at the entrance. If you look to the left of the entrance you can see some of the original wall. The monastery originated about 400 years ago. Also to the left of the entrance you will notice the preferred method of transportation for the people from the local village, a horse and cart.
The second picture is of the church. They are in the process of restoring the inside of the church at the present time. The government has just fixed the roads well enough to drive to this church. You pass through many villages to get there and the roads are not always very good. But because they have fixed the roads there are more people going to visit this monastery so they are fixing it up. The third picture is of my local tour guides. On the left is Alexandra, she is 4 and is the daughter of Florina, one of my students and my "guardian angel". The other is Andrea and she is 7 and is Alexandra's cousin. They decided to pose for this picture. There ws cow poop in the road and they asked "cum sa spune", they wanted to know what we call cow poop. When I told them that we call it cow poop, Alexandra said cow no poop. Florina started to laugh because in Romanian poop is a little kiss, and Alex was right cows dont give you a little kiss.
Class was great again today, we finished our first week. The beginners are getting more comfortable with English and the advanced class is making great progress. Next week I will have the advanced group practice reading and writing. Reading is not too hard but writing will be tougher for them, just like it is for all of the people who speak English. Thank God for spell check. (I spelled Monastery 3 different ways before I got it right, just don't tell any of my students. They think it is very weird that a teacher might not know how to spell something.)
Bye for now, talk at you later. Keep the comments coming.