I Broke a World Record!

Friday was great at the apartment. It was Children’s Day in Romania, so the older kids got to go to a theater show. Angela and I just had *Danny and *Gary for the day. It was also the first day of Chris’ month long vacation, so it was just us while some other workers cooked in the kitchen. Chris being gone means we will no longer have anyone to translate or explain how things run to us. Luckily we had him for a while so we have a schedule set. Angela and I take turns taking each kid out of the room to work with him on the Brigance. They are much more willing to work when they are one on one. It also doesn’t hurt that we give them stickers when they are good (although I’m not sure if they quite grasp that correlation yet.) We’re working with Gary right now on not pulling other people’s hair. It’s not working. That child has a grip of iron. 

Anyway, on Friday, Gary and Danny were little angels almost the whole time! This is quite unusual. They absolutely love music, so we sang to them a bit. (Angela has a fantastic voice, though we will miss Chris’ guitar.) Danny hums Twinkle Twinkle Little Star all the time. He kept doing this thing on Friday where he would be standing across the room from me doing his little swaying dance, I would look up and beam at him, and he would suddenly smile and run over to me for a hug.

Friday at the hospital we found yet another child who I fell in love with. She doesn’t have a first name since she was abandoned at some center (I don’t understand how any of the kids have last names when they’re abandoned. She had a last name. I tried to ask Chris once, but he didn’t really understand my English.) So I took the liberty of dubbing her Cassie. She is a beautiful Aryan baby with blue eyes and a heart-melting smile and very gross poop. I told her that she can marry Scotty, the first baby who I held in the hospital. Speaking of Scotty, I’m worried about him, they moved him back to the ICU for some reason. Aaaaah!

Last night we joined in this lantern lighting festival near our apartment. We were trying to get into the Guinness book of World Records for the most floating lanterns and we made it (12,700)! 

all the girls

Aislynn, Camille, Kelsey, Chelsea, Me

Chameleon and Me

Pretty much I single handedly made history. I’m still a little in shock that nothing lit on fire, though. There were a lot of wires and trees where we lit them. Some of them were stuck on telephone poles burning for a while and one was on one of the Cultural Palace spires for a while. We only saw one that they had to use a fire extinguisher on, though.