Today, we shared homemade soup with one of the local
couples. It’s so special to spend time getting to know them and be welcomed into their home. We were shown all their wedding photos and ate some of their home grown
cucumber. Cucumbers are eaten like we would eat an apple, you just work your
way through a whole one!
I love the biscuits here. They are crumbly and a bit like
shortbread. You can buy them by the kilogram for a few Lei and the teams have
been buying bags of them to take home to their families. One girl bought a bag
full and on leaving the shop was asked by a local (in Romanian) ‘Could I have
one?’ Imagine that in Tesco, sharing your McVities with the next person in the
queue as you wait to be served.
There are field upon field of sunflowers in Moldova and
there are stunning in mid-summer. Sunflower seeds are therefore never in short
supply. They are still in their shells and there seems to be a knack to
shelling them with your teeth but I still haven’t got it!
