Feeling odd...

Hello from Romania!!
At the moment, I'm writing this from a computer where everything is all in Romanian so I'm trying to figure out if I should press "publicare postare" or "salveaza acum" to publish this. Oh well, it's one of the two! But this is not the only place where I'm feeling lost. Being in a country where you don't hear any english around you is hard to get used to. Having Stef around who remembers bits of the language is very helpful. But I should start at the beginning!
We flew out of Vancouver 8:30 Sunday evening to London. I thought I would sleep on the plane but unforutnatey that did not happen so by the time we got to London, we were exhausted. We had to wait 4 hours for our next plane to Bucharest which was delayed in this area where they only put the gate number up 5 min. before your flight so you have to be ready to run when they post it. We did managed to make our flight and after that plus a long car ride with a relatively tame driver compared to a lot of Romanians, we made it to Romania at 2 am on Tuesday morning. Stef and I figured by this time we had not slept for over 32 hours so we crashed at our apartment and ended up sleeping for the next 12 hours without realizing it. It's a very odd feeling this jet lag. This afternoon we walked around Brasov with Steffi (one of the project managers here), her foster daughter Becca and her sister. She showed us where to get groceries as well as the tourist places and restaurants to go to. The architecture of the buildings here is amazing. They look so old and beautiful. The street where everything is has no cars on it, it's just a cobblestone road with shops on either side so it's really fun to walk down. And the food here is really cheap as long as you don't buy American brand name. We found this out the hard way when we bought a tub of butter for .75 while our Honey Nut Cheerios cost over 6 bucks. It's hard to get used to the money here as well as 20 000 lei only equals 1 doller but on the bill it only says "2" instead of 20000. I'm still trying to figure it all out.
Tomorrow we'll start our work in the orphanage in the morning which I'm really looking forward to. We found out it's illegal to take cameras into the hospital though so I won't be able to bring back any pictures of what I'm doing! kind of unfortunate but it's understandable. I got a little taste of what the kids are going to be like when we saw Becca this afternoon. She's already 2 and a half but Steffi said when she was 1 and a half she was still wearing 3-6 month size clothing. She's very very tiny.
Speaking of tiny, the Romanian people are very short and very small so I'm feeling like quite the oddity being here. Some of them look at me funny sometimes but oh well. It would be worse if I was blond. You look down the street and there are absolutely no blond heads unless they are dyed. there is definitely a Romanian look.
Well, I'm going to go try and get some sleep if possible. We've been forcing ourselves to stay awake even though we are exhausted so we can actually sleep through a night. I'll give you all an update soon! love you all,
Deanne