Saturday
Saturday we went into Oradea to check out the tattoo place. For all of you Harry Potter fans reading this, Brandi already has a phoenix tattooed on her arm, which she got for her cousin, but it is also Dumbledore's patronus in the Harry Potter series. So, she is planning on getting the words "Expecto Patronum" on her forearm with the elder's wand shooting sparks up into the phoenix. It's gonna look really cool so she set up an appointment for next week to get it done. Tattoos here are a lot cheaper than in America, like half the price. After we checked out the tattoo place we went to the mall by the walking street. After Oradea we just hung out at the house.
Sunday
Sunday we went to church at Salem in Oradea. Simona, Samuel, and Abel were also with us. After church we got to treat ourselves to lunch at Capitoleum, it's one of the higher end restaurants in Oradea. It only costs like $15 to eat there and it is soo good. I think most of us got the chicken kiev, which is a chicken breast with some kind of sauce and cheese inside. It's flame. After lunch we did some grocery shopping and then went home.
Monday
We usually don't have the kids on Monday's but there was a team coming so the Isaiah Center was up and running. The same team that came last week came back to help with cleaning and helping with the kids. It was soo hot on Monday, at least 100. Then, in the afternoon it started raining which cooled everything off so that was nice. Then it started hailing which was crazy and scary because the kids kept running into it. Mihai came in to tell us that the house we live in had lost power and we wouldn't have any until the next day so he drove us back there to grab some stuff so we could spend the night at the Center. Rachel, Iza, and Samuel were also spending the night at the Center and Erin and Simona spend the night at Rachel's house. Iza, Samuel, and I watched Tangled together. They were so funny. I was worried Samuel wouldn't be able to follow along with the movie since it is in English but it kept his attention the whole time and he was like "That girl has so much hair!!" It was too cute. It was nice to have some snuggle time. Jordan and I risked getting lice and slept in the kids' beds that they use for naps, but we were lucky and we are still lice free.
Tuesday
Tuesday the Center was closed so we just kind of hung out and did our laundry. Samuel told Rachel that he had a dream that Jordan died and I dug out her eyeballs. I was just like, ohh gosh. Although one part of me hopes that he didn't really dream that and was just saying it, I hate to think that's something he just made up, he's like six years old. Forget-Me-Not Ministries finally closed the deal on the house we have been living it so it was a huge praise. The house will be fixed up and used for teams to come and stay. We were really excited because that meant that Maria would be moving out. She is sweet and all but we are excited to finally have some privacy and not have her family running around the house all the time. We went back to the house and Maria and her family were there but they were in the process of moving everything. There is a huge yard next to the house and it still had all kinds of junk in it so Rachel gave them until the next day to move everything out. So, we had one more night with Maria.
Wednesday
Wednesday the team came back and they were a huge blessing because they were able to go to the lodge and clean rooms. Wednesday was also the first day for us to begin our little stations. Brandi is teaching English, Jordan is doing percussion, and I am doing piano/a little voice. We started with the three oldest, Iza, Abel, and Florica. Iza and Abel were pretty good at following with what I was doing on the piano but Florica was just kind of doing her own thing. If it offers her some kind of outlet to let some stuff out then that's fine with me. We went back home and it was so nice because Maria was finally about to leave. She and her family finally left and Brandi went to go into the shower. Brandi came back in afterwards and asked if Jordan or I were in the kitchen area and we told her no and she told us that her heard someone jiggling the door handle in the kitchen door which leads outside. We were all like, okay that's weird. A little bit later Brandi and I went to go make sure everything was locked up. We went to go outside to lock our front gate and take the key inside when we saw a car pulled up and turned their lights off. At this point we were still inside with the door locked. We saw a man get out of his car and just stand at the gate. We decided this was not normal so we went to our room to go call Rachel and tell Jordan. Then the man started knocking on our door (he had reached over the gate wall to get the key to unlock the gate) and yelling "hello." We asked who it was and it got quiet, which was creepy. At this point we were all pretty scared. Then we heard car doors open and close and the car left. Rachel said she would come by to check things out. She came over and the four of us sat on the front steps on the front porch just to see if anything else would happen. About 15 minutes later the same car came by, saw Rachel's car out front, and did a U-turn and went back the other way. We were all like, ookay well that's weird. Rachel said the car was Maria's son's. After some more time passed nothing else happened so Rachel left and we locked everything up. We were all super paranoid the rest of the night and then we saw a HUGE spider. It was disgusting. I hate spiders so much. Yuck. But yeah, we were all pretty freaked.
Thursday
Mihai came to the house and picked us up since it is so hot right now. We told him what happened and he told us he would find out. We secretly call him Liam Neeson because we just feel like he would judo chop someone in the throat to protect us. We didn't have a team on Thursday so it was nice to have some normal-ness at the Center. After lunch, the kids laid down for their nap. They were asleep until like 4:30! It was crazy. They had to of been super tired. In their homes in the village it's about 10 people in each mudhouse and it's usually only one room, sometimes two. So, they can't get too much sleep when they are at home. We didn't get to do our lessons yesterday because of their meganap, but that was fine, they needed the rest. After the kids got sent home we went home and decided to go swimming in the river that is right across from our house. There are always tons of people down there so we decided to try it out, and it was wonderful. Granted, I probably saw too many guys in speedos that I never wanted to see....yeah. But the water felt great. There's kind of a little island in the middle of the river so we laid our towels and stuff down and went and sat in the water. I feel like this is going to be a daily tradition now.
Friday
Today we had a team come from Aquire the Fire, it was two groups of 18 13-17 year olds. One group got sent to work with kids in the village and the other group stayed at the center and did some skits and lessons with the kids. The kids behaved very well and sat still and listened. Marianna plopped in my lap and cuddled with me while they were doing their lessons. She is usually very loud and crazy so I was kind of surprised she was being very shy around the team. The kiddos are napping now and when we wake up we will do some lessons with them and then we will go home and get in the dirty river and cool off!
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