Friday Fun Day! Let me explain. On Fridays we try to get small treats that they normally wouldn't recieve. Whether it be food like today, games, candy, etc. we do it all. We went to the Russian Market again to get our goods. Today's goal was buy pork, whole chickens (heads feet and all), assortment of veggies, red apples (they don't grow here so they are rare), and also an assortment of fruit. This was hilarious, yet disgusting at the same time. When you walk into this market, there is already a stench, but think of when you walk into the meat section. Fish are jumping in the buckets they have been put in, fish are half cut off, meat is hanging, pig's heads are sitting around and their ears, and chickens are hanging with everything in and on them except for their feathers. One word: DISGUSTING! I can withstand the smell, but when you see it and you get a little bit stronger of a smell, you can't help yourself, and you just have to gag. Today I did this, and the sellers around were just laughing! Ha! We then loaded our tuk-tuk driven by Lay, Jacey and Lisa-Marie's driver from last year. He is so nice. He waits everywhere we go, and he even comes into the orphanage and hangs out all day de-licing, talking, and helping. So, his tuk-tuk is loaded and we can barely fit. I had to share Jack Skidmores designated spot on the front of the car, while in the back the meat was floating around. Jack and I were butt to butt. Gross! We finally made it to the orphanage!
When we arrived, once again the kids were nothing but excited to see us, as was I. Hugs all around and every single one of them yelling "Sister, sister." Of course, my favorites Taupe, Dina, Bon Lou, Pao, Tong, Noit and MyMy, get their own special little hug or hello. With some of them I have special handshakes that we made up. So adorable! In a conversation we were having schooling was brought up. Most kids go to public and only three go to private. LM of course wanted to get on this private school thing. They got information from Ritchie and gave us the news. It is only $500 dollars a year for a child here to go to school -that is includes everything. If anyone back home would like to sponsor a child going to school, please go to http://www.childrensglobalalliance.blogspot.com/. This would be an amazing goal to accomplish if we sent most of the kids if not all to this private school.
Today we distributed the clothes donated by many of you. We had a little individual fashion show! Each kid received a new shirts, pants, plus underwear. Adorable once again!
The organization that helps organize us, takes us on a city tour one time while we are here. Today we saw a lots of historical sites on this tour. They were so beautiful and there are so many nice stories behind each of the sites. This was a great way to finish off a great day.
Love
Anna
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