Some singing from Roman

Here is my class singing the Good Morning Song, first in Romanian then in English. I waited until I got home to post this as the connection I had was slow and this is a long video so it loads in less time here at home.




Corin and Andrew singing about catching a fish alive. This is a cute song about counting.




Equal time for the girls here are Cora, Miruna, and Ramona doing the same song.




And last but not least the Itsy-Bitsy Spider song. Featuring Ingrid (or Vivianna), Sara, and Vivianna (or Ingrid). Lol ok so they are hard to tell apart.

Around Bucharest

Here is a view down Unirii Boulevard looking at the Palace of Parliament. This is the building that Ceausecu built at the end of his time. The parliament not meets there. It is the second largest building as far as square feet in the world. The largest is the Pentagon. This area of Bucharest was the old part and was full of old buildings and churches before Ceausecu decided he needed to build a huge building to house the government and also build a boulevard to rival the champ elisee in Paris. So Unirii Blvd. is a little longer and a little wider that the one in Paris. All of the buildings in this view were built at the same time as the People's House (which is another name for the building)

The fountains on Unirii Blvd represent each of the counties here in Romania. This is a view of the largest, which is for Bucharest.
I thought this one was interesting because you can see this kind of thing all over Bucharest. New buildings right next to old ones. So here is a new office complex right next to two old and run down buildings. One of the people I have met here said one of the problems with fixing up the buildings is that the ownership of many of them is in dispute. When the communists took over they took control of all the buildings, the state owned everything. Now that the communists are gone there are many cases in court as to who the buildings belong to. So no one will invest to fix them up until all of that is cleared up. Anyway I thought this was an interesting view.

Back in Bucharest

Hello all, I am back on the internet after a week. I stayed at a nice home in Bucharest but there was no internet access so of course no posts. Here is Jiji again, this time going to school with some new friends in Bucharest. They attend a school called Discover-me. It is a private school in Bucharest. We would call it a pre-school but here they call it Kindergarden or Gradinita. The students range in age from 3 to 7. In Romania they start 1st grade at 7. These students learn for part of each day in English. We sang some songs and had some fun. Jiji enjoyed it too.
I also have gotten in some sightseeing while I am here also. This is the Arch of Triumph near Herastrau park in Bucharest. This picture is taken right at sunset, the lights had just come on and I thought it gave it a nice look. Although the rain has continued in Roman, and the flooding in that part of the country, here in Bucharest, except for a few thunderstorms, the weather has been nice. Talk to you all later.