Arrived. Galati.

So I left the States on the 25th of June to fly to Netherland, and then to Romania. The trip went quite smoothly, no lost luggage or delayed flights. While I was in Amsterdam, I had about two hours to look around the airport. I found a Casino and a Museum inside of the terminals, which was quite a shock.


But I didn't have too much time there. After I paid 12 euros to use internet connection for 90 minutes, they started making passengers go through a security line, and while I was in that line I wasted about 60 of the 90 minutes. Oh well, that happens.

Then I arrived in Bucharest, where I was welcomed by a representative from AIESEC Bucharest, named Alin. He had my name written in Japanese on a paper to catch my attention at the airport, which was very effective. Then we hopped on a bus to reach the actual city of Bucharest to use the metro. The bus was hot because it was not equipped with air-conditioning, and the driver was not very happy with the brakes so he made the passengers work out in the sauna bus with his braking technique. I sweated A LOT. Disgusting.

After switching between a few metro lines we magically arrived at a train station, where catched a train to Galati. I would have been so lost without Alin's help, and I cannot express how thankful I am for what he did. So I gave him one of the fans that I bought in Japan to show my appreciation. I hope he liked it.


Then I arrived at Galati around 19:20. I was welcomed by more than 10 local AIESECers (and Kai) at the train station, and I was shocled by the number of people who showed up just to welcome a trainee. I think we the AIESEC GT should do that too, because when I picked up the past trainees from Atlanta airport, there was not nearly as enough people to greet them.

Then we ate some pizza and drank some beer. The Romanian beer, Ursus, was fairly cheap and good. Better than cheap American beer. But one thing I should note here is that I started to sweat while I was eating this somewhat spicy pizza, and it has not stopped until now. Weird.

After the meal I went to Mihai's apartment with Mihai himself, where I stay until I get an apartment on July 1st. We relaxed for a bit and then went to a bar, where we met some other AIESECers to watch the soccer game, Russia vs. Spain. Needless to say, Spain owned Russia with impressive score of 0-3. Go Spain!

And I just relized that I'm taking too much time to update my blog, so I'm gonna stop for now. It's a long post but all I'm trying to tell is that I arrived safely and I'm doing ok with everything here so far.