#13 Sat., April 11, 2009

Saturday in Novo

Well, another day - went to the orphanage to pick up Stas, but ended up sitting in his classroom watching cartoons, he said to wait for some reason.
We finally went out and another girl, Luba, wanted to come with us to town, but still we had to wait for something and I couldn't figure out what. There was some grass on fire, so the kids all went over to try to stomp it out and bring water, kind of futile. They burn dead grass and brush here in the spring, and kids end up playing with the fire.
So then Stas was ready to go, but it was too late - we had to go have tea at his caregiver's house. We had tea and cake and communicated on the computer with the translator program. Wow, I am tired of trying to communicate!
Stas was sad about saying goodbye to Lyudmilla and cried, so we left and said we would see her tomorrow, which we will. It will be sad for him to say goodbye, but then he'll be excited to be on our way.
It is a nice day today, we are about to have dinner. We did not get to go to the town today, and Stas and I both like to go to stores, so we will go tomorrow. Not anything to buy, just something to do.
It is NOT Easter here tomorrow, it is next Sunday.
I am amazed how frazzled I feel these last days....I'm sure it would be worse to be in China though!
One more day!!