After two days of teaching, the staff organised a trip to the Palace of Parliament, which is the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon. The gigantic building contains 12 floors, over 1000 rooms and took 13 years and over 3 billion US dollars to build. Suffice to say, we were quite impressed.
After a slight hiccup in which Ellie had a ginger moment and forgot her passport, which we had been told the day before was essential for entrance, we travelled to the palace ( meeting Ellie with a slight delay) and spent an hour being toured around.
In this time it turned out we had only seen about 5% of the building!
Following our visit, we walked through the old city and had lunch at one of the restaurants of Ellie's host family (thank you Mischie family for the invitation) .
To say that we were full after the meal would be a serious understatement, as we had eaten a large amount of excellent Romanian delicacies, Matthew complained that he used to be quite fit, now he is not so sure anymore...
The day ended back at the Olga Gudynn school with Matthew jumping in the pool and Hanna thrashing everyone at table tennis, including teachers. Niall refuses to admit the defeat.
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