re: Any OTers been to Romania

If you're single it will be amazing. Be alpha as frick - google "caveman game".

Project your western values and dress well but then act like you're a frat baw at LSU once you're out with your bird

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Everybody smokes there.

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I've been living around the French for the past 4 years so I'm accustomed to being around smokers.

Thanks

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They age poorly but are getting better - think of how US women ages as recently as the previous generation but without any health tips or peer pressure

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How easy are they to trade in for new models?

Sounds like a reasonable trade.

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I've never been to Uzbekistan but if it's anything like the other former Soviet Union "stan" republics I've worked in (Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan) your guy probably thinks he left hell to go to heaven.

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Yea he was thrilled to leave. His wife is from Uzbekistan so he was staying there for her. They just had twins so he jumped on the opportunity to move near his family.

Uzbekistan airport is considered one of the 10 worst airports in the world. That should be a good indication of what the rest of the country is like.

I emailed him once about hand carrying some o-rings or something similar that would be an over the shelf purchase in the US. He told me I can get you a Kalashnikov easier than that here.

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He told me I can get you a Kalashnikov easier than that here.

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I worked in Irkutsk, Russia (southern Siberia) and I asked the Russians I was working with if they knew where I could buy one of those Russian fur, military hats. They took me to what they called a "military surplus" store not far from a big, Russian army base on the outskirts of the city.

It was about the size of a Circle K except all the shelves in it were completely bare. Nothing on them.

I asked my co-worker who drove me to the store if it was open because there was nothing on the shelves.

He said, "Sure, I'll show you."

So we walked in the store and there was an old babushka (grandma) sitting behind the counter wearing a white lab coat.

I told her what I wanted and she asked me, "How much are you willing to pay for it?"

I told her I'd pay $100, in U.S. dollars.

She said, "I don't have one today but if you come back tomorrow, I'll have one for you." I said okay so she measured my head and we left.

The next day we went back to the store and when we walked in the same old lady reached under the counter and pulled out a hat box, complete with military markings on it.

I opened it and sure enough, in it was a military officer's fur hat like you see in the movies with a tag on a string still attached wrapped in onion skin paper.

I gave her the $100 bill and walked out with my hat.

I had the distinct impression I could have asked for a ten megaton, nuclear warhead and she would have said, "How much are you willing to pay" and if I said "a million dollars" she would have said, "I don't have one today but if you come back tomorrow, I'll have one for you."

I was only in romania for six days

but I could understand a little bit of the language (in writing) not so much being spoken. i suppose because its a romance or latin based language bc i do know a little bit about all the latin languages besides romanian.

I would get massages from these women from Kyrgyzstan, whenever i had downtime in Afghanistan.

The ones I encountered, were asian, but had russian accents and could speak russian.