Hello from Romania

As far as I'm concerned, I've known nothing about Romania, even the location. Are there any common image out of this country?

One of my classmates at ESL school delivered a presentation during a class. She is in her mid 50s and left her country about 10 years ago, so the idea might be a bit too traditional, but it extremely stimulated my interest.

She introduced to us what it was like to live in a communist country. They lived in a same type of apartment that was provided by the government, and had same kinds of furniture.
The salary depended on their occupation, which meant everyone was known by others how much money they earned.
Moreover, they waited in a long line for more than 1 hour to get a lip stick, of course only one type of color of the lip stick for every women.

She admitted, however, it was not necessarily a happy and peaceful time; nevertheless, she never felt envious or jealous to others. The communism kept them from a feeling of disparity between the well-off and poor people. The situation has been changed, but she reminisced about her old days through the presentation.

The above photo is of the food she cooked for this day. It was my first experience to have Romanian food, but all of them were so palatable that we could not help bringing some leftover back home :)
This country has been added to my "I should go" list.