The rest that night was really good, but I could have definitely used more sleep. And of course, my adventures started right away. I woke up, sat up, stretched and felt something on my arm. Trying not to be too much of a girl I brushed it off, saw it was a bug at least an inch long, and then left my room quickly. I came back with some toilet paper to kill it with but couldn't find it. No worries though. I found it about an hour later and killed. No more creepy bugs. Later that day Dave, the Mather's and I were talking about the animal's here. The one that really freaked me out was that rabbit's here are about two feet tall and you see them at camp, which is where I will be most of the summer. Kind of freaked me out, but hopefully we won't see any. :)
Going back to more relevant things, on my first day in Romania BCA (Bucharest Christian Academy) was having a Field Day for all of the kids. BCA is a mostly English school that has a lot of missionaries children going there. Cami is one of the teachers and I heard that every year it gets rained out. The weather here is pretty funny. It is mostly sunny and such, but there will usually be about 30 minutes where it just pours down rain. Most of the time it is at the very least 30 minutes, but it can last up to a couple of hours. Well, the weather was nice so Field Day was still on and the kids were ecstatic!
Cami and I left around 7:45 to pick up a couple of girls from the orphanage so they could come too. One of them, Maria, was having a hard time so Cami wanted to keep her busy so she would stay out of trouble. So we picked up Maria and Kristina. They were extremely sweet and Kristina, taught me to count 1-10 in Romanian as well as "What is your name?" She is so sweet. She said that I was really smart because of how quickly I picked up on it. I think it was just because I had a good teacher. So off to Field Day we went.
When we arrived at Field Day it was starting to get a little cloudy, but we decided to continue on with the days activities. There were things like water balloon toss, hula hooping, football toss, relays and such. Well, after each group had done one activity it started to sprinkle. Then.... it started to down pour. That was no fun because they had to call off Field day so everyone went home. Steve, Dave, Kristina, Maria, and I went to McDonalds for lunch. They are so sweet, and sharing is a huge thing here. If people have food, they share it with others and see it as disrespectful if you do not accept. I learned this lesson really quickly and try not to be disrespectful as I now share my food as well.
Since Field Day was called off we dropped Kristina and Maria off at the orphanage and the Mather's had some of the high schoolers over for a movie so Dave and I kind of crashed that party. Then Jessica, John, Tamara, Dave and I went on a walk because it cleared up. We went to the park that had a trampoline and Dave and John went to go jump on it. Pour Dave to about two jumps and fell because he hurt his ankle. So we sat around the park some and met two more kids from the orphanage, one of which was Kristina's (the one I met earlier) brother. So Jessica bought them something to eat and John let them ride on the bumper cars.
After that David and I were going to go see one of his friends Katrina, but because he hurt his ankle we just went to Jessica's house. They are missionaries as well and were extremely nice. They fed us this wonderful salad and because Jessica, Hannah (their other daughter), Dave (their son) and Tom (the dad) were part of a worship ensemble at church they had band practice at their house. They sang songs in Romanian and in English. It was so amazing to worship God in two different languages at once. It was a great night. After all of this, Dave decided he wanted to check his ankle out but there were no hospitals open. Hospitals here in Romania are hard to get into. Even if it is an emergency. So the hospital was going to wait until the next day and I went to bed. Another calm, but eventful day. Just the way I like it.
sharing food huh? *grin*
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