Very slow day. Since I was so exhausted from the bus and out so late the previous night I slept into the afternoon. After getting up I wanted to check out a museum, but none of them were open. Seems like Tuesday is the day that they all agree to be closed. I got some lunch at a kebab place and was very annoyed to find that my food got thrown away after I walked about 15 feet to grab a new fork. A guy there was trying to help me but he didn't speak any English and I figured it wasn't worth it. The food was somewhat cheap anyway, though actually things here seem more expensive than I'd expected. I wasn't thinking it would be Albania prices, but still. The lei is worth about 21 cents so it's pretty easy to divide all the prices I see by 5. I was honestly feeling rather disinterested in Bucharest by this point since it had such weird vibes, so I sat in a park for a little while to write the blog and snack on some fruit. After that I finally got a desperately needed haircut.

Back at the hostel I made a giant thing of rice I found on the free shelf in my continued campaign to not bother going outside to get stuff for making dinner. The hostel had an evet on today that was totally unlike anything I've seen a hostel do before: they had the guy who ran trivia come in and have us discuss "conflict". I actually missed most of it since I was working my way through a couple pounds of rice but I caught the end and it was pretty interesting. It reminded me of discussion groups in college and wasn't very much fun in the traditional sense, but was a unique take on things. I hung out with people in the hostel for a while longer - someone told me that apparently the city's design was heavily inspired by that of Pyongyang which I found very gratifying given my comments on yesterday's entry - and then went to bed.

Tomorrow I have a bus out in the afternoon, and that's when I'm going to head out to Turkey. It's supposed to get in at 3 AM the following morning, which isn't ideal, but I don't have a lot of options. Before then I'd like to see the national History museum since it apparently has a cool cast of Hadrian's Column that Mussolini allowed to be made so that the Romanians could pretend to be the real successor state to Rome.