So I'm finally getting around to posting the Romania pictures!! It was such an awesome trip, I'm so glad to have had this experience. I touched a little bit on this in my last post, but I was there to present the research I did in Aceh last summer on terrorism at The International Emergency Management Society 2011 Conference in Bucharest. I met so many amazing people and got to know my fantastic professors better. I also got an award for having the best student paper :)
So without further ado, here are the pictures!
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| Pretty building in Bucharest. Really not sure what it was, because Romanian is completely incomprehensible! |
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| Art museum. We meant to go in, but we were too lazy to spend the $8 and never got around to it. |
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| Pretty sure this was a national monument dedicated to the Romanian revolution or something. Don't they look like testicles? LOL |
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| Testicles! |
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| An old church we found in Bucharest. Most Romanians are Eastern Orthodox. |
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| No clue who he was, but I bet he was important. |
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| The ceiling of the cute little church we found! |
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| No clue what this is. It looks like a bunch of human limbs piled on one another. |
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| Wedding season! We saw a lot of them going on. |
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| On our way to Dracula's castle. What an awesome mountain! |
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| We stopped in Brasov to look around. It was cool, but we got chased down by gypsies. |
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| old buildings! |
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| The streets of brasov |
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| The Romanian countryside is gorgeous |
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| That's me posing in front of the mountain off the highway! |
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| This couple was getting married at (the church near) Dracula's castle! |
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| The path up to the castle |
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| Dracula! |
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| This cross was really cool and had a bunch of writing on it in some strange old language. I wonder what it said! |
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| The stairs up to the entryway of the castle. Creepy, right? |
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| Inside. They used to be so short back in the day! |
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| Vlad's courtyard |
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| I'm about to go up the secret staircase! I wonder where it will lead... |
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| Secret staircase! |
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| The view from inside the castle |
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| Lounging....I always feel right at home in castles! |
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| Dining room |
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| Courtyard and a wishing well! |
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| This was a great view!! From this spot, people used to see how close invading armies were to the castle. |
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| Park in Bulgaria's border town of Giurgiu. |
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| That says BULGARIA in the Cyrillic alphabet. We decided to cross over to Bulgaria for lunch one day, just because :) |
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| Me and the ladies! |
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| Back in Romania. No clue what this building was, but it's nice! |
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| In Bucharest's Old Town. This was a really old part of the city that they preserved and you can look down on it from the street. |
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| Old Town Bucharest |
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| Receiving an award for a 300 Euro scholarship! On the left is Dr. Rohrrmann, who kindly sponsored the scholarship, and on the right is Dr. Drager, who was in charge of the conference. |
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| Recipient of the Rohrrmann Scholarship and Best Student Paper! And I got slipped a Benjamin :) |
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| Me and my wonderful professor, Dr. Heffron! |
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| The other Rohrrmann winner, Alkenka from the Czech Republic! Such a sweetheart :) |
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| More award winners! |
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