It has been a fun week. On Monday we went to the baby hospital in the afternoon. It was my first time back at the baby hospital since two years ago. I was not very excited to go, in fact I was a little nervous, and didn't really want to. I remembered the hospital being this awful place. I remember it being hot and disgusting, leaving with a terrible headache, and not ever wanting to go back. So I needed a new baby hospital experience. One of the best things about this week is that it has been really nice outside, so inside the baby hospital it wasn't too bad. It was a little warm, but not like I was melting. I fell in love with this precious little one named Maria. She has curly, crazy dark brown hair, a smile to die for, and a giggle that reminds me of a toy baby doll. She is just around 6 months old and she is sooooo cute. I was so glad that I got to meet her. There are so many other precious little ones there too.
Tuesday we went to the Girl's house to do some more cleaning and prepping for camps that are going to be there throughout the summer. I got to weed and hoe the garden. It was raining, not too hard, but it was a good things because it made the weeds easier to pull out. We got to spend that evening just kind of relaxing a little bit.
Wednesday we went to the Black Sea to see the kids from Peris. The kids are there all this week, it is a nice break for them, but it has been kind of rainy and gross all week so the majority of their trip has been spent indoors. But when we were there even though it was raining for some of the time, we were able to play outside and go walk to the beach, and hang out with them. I got to put my feet in the Black Sea and got some sea shells. Here are some pictures.
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Krysten (the other intern) and I have been able to spend some time with the married couple on staff, Mark and Rebecca. They have been on staff since last september. They are super fun and it has been nice getting to know them over the past few weeks. Thursday night Krysten and I went to Mark and Rebecca's apartment in Bucharest to have dinner with them and just hang out. Mark made us a very yummy dinner. It was my first time in a block building and in the elevator I was super nervous. But this elevator is so small. When people told me that you can fit 4 people into it i thought they were just kidding. On the sign outside of it, it says 4 people is the MAX number you can put into one of those things. There were 4 of us in it, and we might have been able to fit two more people... if we were all squished together. You close the doors yourself and the whole thing clunks a lot, but you have to wait for the right clunk to open the door when you get to the bottom. Here is a picture of Krysten and I in the elevator.
After dinner, since it was kind of a nice night out we didn't want to stay inside so we went for a walk in search of Gogosi. Gogosi (pronounced-Go-go-sh)is like a donut with sugar on the outside. Although we did not find Gogosi, we did find a sweet park. In this park was a playground... and not just any playground. This was a playground for adults. So like any children at heart... the four of us played on many of the things at this park. We had lots of fun there!! After we'd had our fun on the playground we continued our walk around the park where we went around a lake. We ended up going back towards Mark and Rebecca's apartment -- still Gogosi-less -- but instead found this other delicious dessert type thing. I don't remember what it was called, but it was dough, flattened into one long strip and then wound around to make a cylinder shape. The four of us split it and it was actually pretty good. When we got back to their apartment we had some really good conversation while we were waiting for Jenny to come pick us up. It was a really fun night and hopefully we will be able to do it one more time before I leave to go home.. at the end of the summer of course.
Yesterday was a staff meeting in the morning, basically laying out our whole summer and who will be where and how we will be getting there from now until august 6th. Our summer is going to be crazy busy, but crazy fun. Starting tomorrow I will be staying at either the staff apartment near the girls transition house, or at the girls transition house for about the next two weeks. We will be there doing our two girly camps while the boys are up in the mountains with the older boys from three orphanages. After that I will be heading down to the boys transition house for another two weeks doing camps down there. After that it is back to the girls transition house for more camps with the younger kids. When that is done we will finally be able to relax a little bit and take a breath before I come home on August 14th. It is going to go so fast.
In the afternoon yesterday, again we went to the baby hospital. This time I was really looking forward to it, I went in the same room that I was in on Monday, but yesterday more of the kids from that room went to play upstairs for a while (including Maria). So there were only two babies left and Rebecca and I were both in that room, so we each got a baby. For almost 2 hours I held one little girl without a name, that we call Missy. She is 5 1/2 months old and I don't think she sat still the whole time that I was holding her. But when the other kids came back I wanted to hold and play with some of the other kids too, and since Missy had been spoiled for most of the time, by being held every time I laid her down she would cry. Eventually it was time for them to eat so she was fine after that. After I changed Maria, I had to say goodbye to her, knowing that she could be gone by the next time I get to the baby hospital since it will probably be at least a month before I go there again. I was tickling her to hear her precious giggle and giving her kisses and she started giving kisses back. Big, Sloppy, Wet, open-mouthed baby kisses. But I didn't care. I would have stayed there all day doing that.
Today has been nice, we cleaned and refreshed the entire team house today. This place is glistening from being so clean. It also smells very strongly of Pine Sol since we washed ALL of the floors (minus the rugs) with the stuff. We also cleaned the cars inside and out. At least the house and the cars are all ready for summer!!! It has also been a great evening for Krysten and myself. We got the house to ourselves while the staff is gone to a wedding. We went to the store to pick up some things, we made dinner together, had a great time of sharing, and now we are getting ready to watch a movie. I am excited to hang out with her and get to know her more this summer, as well as get to know the rest of the staff.
Some things to pray for:
-- That the teams that will be arriving soon (tomorrow and later this week) will arrive safely with their luggage and the supplies they are bringing over
-- For all of the H2H vehicles that will be traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles this summer, that they will all be safe with their oh so precious cargo of children and team and staff.
-- That our teams will do well together.
-- That the girly camps will be able to minister well to the girls coming and that we will be able to help them see that they are all precious and worth so much more than they are told.
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