Day ten of my trip to Romania was a Saturday. Saturday’s started to become my favorite day of the whole week because it meant that we were able to go to the orphanage and see all the kids, but first, I had the privilege to meet Wilmer and Janice Faber. We started the day out by all meeting at the Mather’s apartment to have breakfast. There is where I heard of the Faber’s adventurous travel to Romania.
Wilmer and Janice Faber are a couple from the northwestern corner of Iowa who are in their 50’s, had been to Romania eight times now, and own their own tractor company. They seemed really sweet and had such a strenuous flight over to Bucharest. It started out that their first flight was delayed, so then they had to find another flight. Then, the booked their flight that was meant to come in at midnight (which is the part that I heard) but found another flight that arrived at least an hour earlier but were unable to e-mail the Mather’s about the change. When they arrived they had no luggage with them that had arrived yet, which happens very frequently, and had no way of contacting the Mather’s to let them know that they had arrived. The Faber’s ended up finding a man who could call to America so that they could call the Mather’s on their American line here in Romania. End of the story, they made it to Romania with a few problems, but when I met them they didn’t seem like they had dealt with it in a good and calm way knowing that everything would turn out just fine.
After breakfast we were able to go to the orphanage and see all of the wonderful kids!!!!! I was so excited. I definitely enjoy being able to do such things. This time, we were all able to go inside and made flowers to put on top of chocolate cupcakes like we were “planting” our flowers. The kids were so absolutely adorable. They told Cami how that was “the best dirt they ever tasted.” J It was really cute.
When we were finished with making our “flowers” we played with the kids. These kids decided that they really enjoyed playing with my hair and making me into a “model” and we had many pictures taken. All you heard was “Posa! Posa! Posa!” throughout the room. I am pretty sure that “posa” means “picture” in English. You tend to catch on really quick when things are repeated often.
By the time we left the orphanage it was time to eat and I was able to have my first Shaworma. It was so absolutely delicious but unfortunately I was not able to finish it all. It was just too much for me to eat. A shaworma is like a huge taco, but with really good meat or chicken or just vegetables if that is what you want. I am not quite sure how to explain it, but it was so good!
After the Faber’s, Pratt, the Mather’s and I ate Pratt made some plans for all of us that night. Pratt ended up showing me a new game called Peggle, which I like a lot, and I only lost to one person and that would be Cameron. So not fair, but I guess I could live. There was a whole bunch of us there. A girl named Abby, Pratt, Renee, McKenna, John, Cameron, Joel, Rebecca, and me. We all played Cranium and then Scene It on the x-box. We also ordered in Chinese food and then sat down to watch the Green Hornet. I only watched part of it though. I wasn’t really into the movie and I heard later that they didn’t really like it either. After a fun night it was off to bed. I know I had a little bit of a hard time because I am not the best with a lot of people around, but that didn’t stop us from having fun and hanging out.
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