Adventures in Ukraine

It was an early start today. We had to be on the road at 8 a.m. so I was up early and ready to go. Alexander, Irina, and Elena (another teacher) were all ready to go this morning. Rita and I got in and we began our journey. It was about an hour and some minutes before we arrived at the orphanage. It is on the outskirts of a large town, so it is almost in the country…or in the country almost in the city I should say.

We were greeted by several boys of varying ages. They all have some problems mentally, and some physically as well. We greeted the principals, and talked “shop” for a minute or two. Then we went to their classroom and started the lessons. Irina began with songs and reviews of the previous lessons. Then we went outside and did some games with hula hoops and races, etc.  When we got back inside, we had them draw the visuals I would be using for the story. They drew the plagues, and then one of them was Pharoah and the other was Moses and we told the story with interactive parts from the other guys. There were 14 boys present. We had a great time. The orphanage is very dark and it smelled pretty bad, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be.

The lesson was a success and we all had a good time. Then we traveled back to the city of Dnepropetrovsk. We picked up Elena’s daughter, so now in our four passenger car we have five adults and one 6 year old…it is Ukraine!

Rita and I were dropped off at Daffi, I have a chance to blog, and eat. Then tonight we will be at Alexanders place and then with Olga at seven thirty and then at Daffi tonight at 9 so that I can talk to Rick! Whew! I’m tired just thinking about it!

I must go for now…I love you all…and I wrote a novel for yesterdays blog so today you will get a simple “one column report”.

Jackie