I've been in Europe a MONTH!?!?! And my address is....

It's crazy... today I realized that I have been in Europe for a whole month! It's weird to think back over the past month because I have been in Ireland, Scotland, France, and England, not to mention Romania! I've done some pretty awesome stuff, and had a ton of fun! It's also weird to realize that minus going to Italy on the way home, I am only here for another three months. It's just kind of sad because we haven't been cleared yet by child protection services, so we haven't been able to start working at the orphanage-- which is the whole reason we are here! But never fear- I have been keeping myself busy! We also volunteer at the local childrens hospital and find kids who are either orphans or their parents are too busy to come visit them. Apparently hospitals here are much different than they are in the states, and the nurses aren't expected to do much in the way of actually taking care of the babies-- they may get fed and changed, but that is about it! It's really sad actually because most of the time the babies are crying and as soon as we go in and pick them up, they immediately stop crying!
Other than that, we do have quite a bit of school work-- just trying to catch up with my daily journal is about killing me! I haven't quite found the time to write about all my adventures in traveling, and it makes me really sad! But soon!
In addition, we are really active in the branch here-- without our group of 10 girls and the 8 missionaries that are here, there are probably only 20 Romanians or so that come to church. It seems like we are always doing something with the branch-- and we all just got our callings! I got called to be the FHE coordinator, which is ironically funny because two weeks before I left for Europe, they tried to call me to FHE mom, but I had to turn it down because I was leaving! It just shows me the church is true that regardless of where I go, they still want me to do the same calling!
Everything else here is going well-- I love all the girls I am with, and we have lots of fun and funny times. Most of us went to the Black Sea earlier this week and had some fun adventures on the beach. I am in love with the bread here-- as you can see in the picture. It only costs 1 lei or about $.35 american dollars!!!! And it's usually freshly baked. Yum.... But I just wanted to get a quick update-- I PROMISE as soon as I get my journal (which is a requirement for one of my classes) up to date, I will work on my blog! I miss you all! If you want to send care packages, the address here is:

Marina Fletcher
c/o Marionela Vartolomei
Bd. AL. Cel Bun, NR 62,
BL. D-3, Sc. E, ET. 10 Ap. 37
IASI Cod 700603,
Romania
This is the correct address! I promise! And I am sorry that it has taken me forever to do my blog-- my computer died. Yeah... so that has been fun! I am still working on my journal from here! Sorry!