Happy October

10/1/06 - hey there all...i have fallen behind yet again...imagine...i haven't actually updated the blog since the pictures of the school...so i will be adding some glass blowing pictures here from ploiesti - which is pronounced - ploy-eschte - when you have the "ti" they get pronounced schte and you can't really hear the "i"...kind of like bucheresti - for bucharest....its pronounced buchereschte....sounds like i have actually learned something from my romanian lessons...which is kind of correct....i know my numbers and days of the week and colors and i can sort of tell time...and now we are learning fruits and veggies...which is great for shopping....anyway...here are some of the shots from the past few weeks....

this is where we went for glass buying and watching guys blow glass...it was such an interesting place...as the warehouse was DUSTY...and that's where we were shopping from....we were the only ones there...which makes me wonder if they only do large orders...not really sure....

this was some of the cool heavy, red glass....it was sitting on the floor and i really liked the way the sunlight was on the vases...and don't you just love the sperms up the sides of the vases...there were lots of these...this takes a good shot i think :)

here is one of the 6 guys blowing glass...he was the only one wearing long sleeves...most of them had a tank or no shirt on...and all of them were in sandals...i guess they have been doing this for a long time and are sure of their skill...and none of them had goggles...none of the precautions you see at glass blowing places in the states seemed to be in place....it was interesting...i watched them for about ten minutes and the folks selling the glass thought this was quite weird....didn't i want to buy glass and not watch the workers...oh well...different strokes for different folks...okay....blogger just doesn't want to post anymore...and i need to hit bed...i will post more soon...when i have some extra time...hope everyone is well :)