Greetings From Lupeni

Quick update -
I've been with the host family now for four days. That has, for the most part been going well. My family speaks very little english which is good, because I am learning more romanian but also frustrating because it sometimes takes 20 minutes to tell them where I am going. I have 7 brothers and 1 sister in the family but, the dad and the oldest brother have not been home yet - they went on a trip the day I left and are supposed to be home tomorrow. My brothers are Emanuel (11), Nachis (12), Nata (13), Cornelut (17), Oni (19), Nelutu (20), and Daniel (21)...and then the girl is Prisida (23).
All of the group here is sick except for me - so I am trying to sheild myself because I really do not feel like getting sick. nope, nope, nope. The diet has been interesting as well but, I am doing well at being careful with it. Yesterday my famiy brought me 4 Liters of sheep milk and I had to tell them that I couldn't drink it (they warned us about the unpaturized milk) I think somehow, I told them that I did not like milk at all but, better that then getting sick. I am really enjoying a lot of the food though and my family sure likes to feed me - a lot. They make this really yummy drink by boiling apples and adding sugar and such...basically really, really good apple cider. It is delicious.
The daughter in my host family is a leader at one of the impact clubs here in town so I have already been able to get involved with some of the youth, they are great and very eager to learn english. Friday night they had "band practice" and sang a lot of praise and worship music that I knew in english. They asked me to sing with them and that was really, really great. It was funny at times when I messed up the pronunciations and such but, it was a great experience.
Classes started yesterday and are going well so far, I am really glad to be starting a regular schedule with things to do and focus on. Yesterday we went over Romanian history which was really interesting because the wars look very different from this side of the world.
I suppose that is all for now.
Peace!