The end of week one (and a half)

I feel so much more settled in now and I am LOVING my time here. It is nice not to be in a fog of jet lag (I almost fell asleep during church last week, I felt like my dad). The Shafter team has been here all week and I really enjoyed getting to know those I didn't know so well. The projects they brought with them were fun too. The girls at Chitila (an all girls orphanage) had a great time doing a dance routine for the music video and so did kids from an apartement who came to the center. I have to say though. My favorite time was at number seven (an older co-ed orphanage with a bit of a crazy reputation). We brought the trampoline and had a center for dying or painting t-shirts. I was in my element of Romanian and I was able to give directions about how and were to put rubberbands on t-shirts and and what color to dye them in. Honestly, I was trying to avoid the dying center as I still have pink fingernails from the t-shirt making at Chitila, but I am so glad that God put me there because my confidence in my speaking abilities must have gone up ten points and I cant wait to try out my language skills again on Monday. I will have language lessons with Florina on Tuesday and Thrusday and a new team is coming on Friday. Everyone has Friday off as a rest day after this team and we might go to Brosauv (I totally spelled that wrong) on Friday or Saturday and on the other day we are going to prepare a meal to hand out to street people. I am looking froward to another great week and I am feeling great! By the way, I downloaded all the pictures I have taken since I have been there and you can see them if you follow the link. I have pictures from the Rehab trip to the park and our Saturday outings to the park at Aviatorilor and to Sanai as well as other random pictures. Enjoy!