Yay! I got my first comment from a real person, from the nice lady (girl? young woman? Old hag? LOL) over at Naked Cupcakes. Go check it out! Of course, by definition, right now I’m a big “nobody” on the internet so my endorsements are worth… well about nothing. But one day after my Awesomeness and Excellence is Universally Recognized and just one of those … Continue reading Yay! First comment!
Time to address the “elephant in the room” otherwise known as drinking in Romania. Also time to explain my “user name” which is drunk police (you knew that, right? YAY) as it all fits in together. First, we begin with one of my very own patented TRUE STORIES FROM THE ROMANIAN FRONTIER™, to wit: Literally my first day ever on Romanian soil, I was met … Continue reading Drinking in Romania
As I’ve mentioned before, Romanian language is a little ahem *coughcough* fluid on the spelling of the language. This can get damn confusing if you’re ahem *coughcough* some hopeless idiot foreigner trying to LEARN it so I’m going to give you a super short primer in the hopes that you won’t have to suffer for years (literally) trying to sort it all out. To illustrate … Continue reading Hijinks in Spelling – Orthography Fun!
If you speak English and see the expression drum bun your mind conjures up a musical instrument for striking out rhythms combined with some kind of light bread style pastry and it makes NO SENSE. That being said, in Romanian it DOES make sense, sort of. Drum (pronounced droom) literally means a “road” or “path” and bun (boon) just means “good”. So drum bun literally … Continue reading Expression of the Day – Drum Bun
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