Our First Official Day

I woke up this morning wide awake at 3:30 AM. Good ol’ jetlag. Around 4:30 the roosters started crowing and cows started mooing. It seriously sounds like there is a cow like right outside our window. We moved into the house yesterday. It is HUGE! The house is right across from the river and down the road from Mihai’s old people home. The three of us are sharing a huge room and it is super cute. We are sharing the house with a Hungarian woman whose husband passed away about a year ago. She is super sweet. I just wish that the language barrier wasn’t so bad since she does not speak English and we only know a little Romanian. This morning once we all woke up we ate some Choco Chips cereal (a mix between chocolate frosted flakes and cocoa puffs). The woman we are sharing the house with came in our room with some delicious very strong coffee. After breakfast we all got ready for the day. We were a little worried if we could brush our teeth with the tap water or if we should use the bottled since we can’t drink the tap water. We all went ahead and took a risk to use the tap water...so hopefully nothing bad happens =]. We’ve already had some devo time this morning and now we are listening to praise music and just relaxing. Overall it’s been a great first morning in Romania! 

Last night we went to the center for dinner and got to meet Michelle and Herb. They are awesome. Samuel and Iza were at the center and one of the first things Samuel asked Rachel was where our husbands were. Ha! He is a cutie pie. Rachel said that Samuel and Abel have been staying with her during the weekends lately because their grandparents were strongly considering putting them up for adoption. So she’s been trying to lighten their load a little. 

We got to have our first Romanian meal of the trip with couscous. SOO good! After dinner we got to hang out with Iza and Samuel a little bit and then Michelle and Herb took us to a small store to get a few food items until we can go to a bigger grocery store on Sunday after church. We are really excited to be settled in and we can’t wait to start working with the kids!