Orphanage and more!

Hi everyone,

 This week been pretty busy for us so far. Sunday after church we had a church picnic and then Sunday night we went into Brasov to the Logan's and Sutek's church. Monday morning Arielle, Sarah and I went to an orphanage and spent the day and night there. That was quite an experience. It was very sad too. This one little boy there named Johnny knew English, so he gave us a tour of the whole orphanage. When he was done giving us the tour, he talked to us for a little bit and was just telling us how he didn't understand why none of his family wanted him. He said "I don't hate my mom, because she gave me life, but I don't understand why she wouldn't want me when I was a gift to her from God." He said he liked the orphanage, but he wants a real  home and family.

The orphanage is run by Christians. It's a huge orphanage. There are about 21 orphans and three orphans in each bedroom. They keep it very clean too. There are 15 people on staff there.  They have a huge court yard and a back yard with a garden and fruit trees. The day we got there, they got in 9 new orphans all from the same family. I guess their mom had left and their dad was blind, so he couldn't take care of them. It was really sad. The oldest was 12 and the youngest was 14 months.

Tuesday before lunch we took some of the kids to the park and on our way there one of the girls took off running and once we got to the park the oldest boy took off too. Thankfully we had other staff members with us, so they went after them! We got home Tuesday night and were very tired!!

  Today us girls went to a birthday party for Magda (our Romanian teacher). Later Pat, Sarah and I walked up to the Gypsy village. We went on a walk with some of them and took pictures. They love getting their pictures taken. If they see you with a camera and ask "posa, posa?"

Anyways, I'm going to put some pics on here now!! Enjoy!

Love and miss you all!!!!

Anna

Uncle Chuck grilling the sausage and mici

Waiting for the food to be done

A family in the Zander's church. Dan used to be the Zander's interpreter when they first moved here.

Dan (a first time visitor) Christi and Pat

Eating

Uncle Chuck and Mariana, eating watermelon

Sunday night after church we went to a coffee shop.

The lady all the way to the right is the one that takes care of all the Zander's paper work and legal stuff that lets them stay in the country. Her name is Cati She's so sweet!!

The older lady in the front is the one who started this orphanage 15 years ago.

The 9 new orphans who came in the day we got there. Only two are boys! The girls got their hair all chopped off before they got there.

Part of the courtyard and outside of the orphanage

Johnny - our tour guide! He knew really good English.

He was my little buddy!

The view from our bedroom! It was so pretty.

Arielle and Cosmina

Trying to teach this little girl her numbers. She only knew how to count to ten and could only write the number 1. It's a good thing I can count to 20 in Romanian, or else it would have been a little tough!

"Nurse" Sarah. This kid cut his finger pretty bad and showed it to me. It's a good thing Sarah was right there, cause I can't handle those kind of things, so I just stood back and took pictures!!

Arielle and a couple of the kids we took to the park

The kitchen where we spent a lot of our time cleaning and washing dishes!! 

Mopping

Sar and Aire

Walking through the Gypsy village today. Vlad, Sarah and Andrea

Sarah and Mariana

Mariana. She's sooo cute. I love her and she's finally warming up to us and lets us hold her!

I bought these kids ice cream today and they were soo happy!!