Archive Oct. 14, 2009: Faith Inducing Lift Rides

I will include stories of moms, clinic work and births as they come along but have started using the blog to fill in readers on ‘real life’ Romania. Some of you have requested cultural tidbits and tales of day to day life. So in between stories of non-profit status development, fundraisers, births and midwifery you will find these little vignettes of life in Bucharest.

Melika a wonderful friend from college and fellow RN visited from Philadelphia this last week. We were able to meet with an expecting mom, visit the Euroclinic, travel on crowded metros, visit Peles castle and experience ‘the lift’. Our elevators referred to in Romania as ‘lifts’ was affectionately referred to as ‘the tower of terror’ by a recent group of visiting friends.

Melika and I enjoyed the important details such as floor numbers marked in sharpie pen, the bare light bulb, the ability to see and touch the floors as they zoom by through the ‘windows’ in the doors and the sound our rapid descent from floor 7 to the ground floor!