Romanian speech

All of us at UNICEF-Moldova are frantically preparing for Friday's big benefit event. The UNICEF folks are plastering Chisinau with all kinds of publicity and planning every aspect of the eight-hour event with a degree of carefulness, precision, and creativity that would put most inaugurations to shame.

I have written a speech which I will deliver in Romanian, thanks to the translating and coaching abilities of my lovely translator Oksana. It's memorized now, but I'm still quite nervous: the first time I deliver a sentence of any complexity in Romanian will be in the presence of the Prime Minister of Moldova!