Catching up from one week - to summarize, we had to pray about our paperwork being signed so Tania could bring it back to Kiev and submit it - and she had success, and went back to Kiev on the night train a few days ago and our attorney submitted it asap to the SDA.
We will just wait for the court date, which they think will be this Wednesday here - Tania will come back for that.
So we are just waiting here at Olga's gueshouse until then and checking Stas out of the orphanage every day from 11am-8pm.
It is sad to see all of the children longing to be the one to go with a family. The orphanage is on the picture, there is nothing outside but inside is clean and comfortable. When we go, the children are watching and come to say hi, they ask if we are American or Italian family.
We have good food at Olga's house and we have had a couple of nice days after we first had snow and rain, today was beautiful and sunny and felt like spring.
Some boys followed us to the house and we went outside to give them some candy and chips.
It is so poor here, we are in a small village and it is completely run down. It reminds us of being just after a war and things are in disrepair. People go and get water in buckets, they take a bicycle into the woods with a chainsaw to cut down trees and put them on the bike to transport back home and cut up for firewood.
We are in a decent house, the only thing that bothers us is the toilet! They are fine except they don't put the toilet paper into the toilet after use, you put it in the trash next to the toilet.....Yes, it is icky!
Michael can't wait to get back home, this is not his thing. It does remind me of Norway and my grandmothers home and village, but not as nice.
It really is strange to be like going back in time, yet talking on cell phones and computers.
We are trying to take a lot of pictures, I will try to include them when I learn how.
So today we had cake and tea at Stas' caregivers house, Lyudmilla, and it was nice. We used the computer to translate so we could communicate.
We will eat dinner soon and then walk Stas back over to the orphanage by 8pm. It is weird walking over these hill in pitch black, but the sky was pretty last night, lots of stars.
We are becoming familiar with going to and from the orphanage and seeing the children, but we haven't spent much time hanging around there. Maybe I will during the waiting period.
We did take a taxi to Kharkov yesterday to be in some civilization - we ended up on their expensive street of stores and then had the driver take us to "Target". They actually have a store called Target, but it's their version. Kind of like a Cosco price club on a small scale. We picked up some snacks like chips and candy and water and bandaids. Not much, but there is not much in town here in this village.
Sorry I am writing so choppy, but we are communicating with people on a simple level and I end up writing like that!
We know a bit of Russian words and it really helps.
Okay, that is all for now - I think I am caught up to the present!!
Stas has had spring break, so now we will pick him up after school tomorrow at 3pm and I can write the blog this week.
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