School Kits And Lesson Plans

Last week was another eventful one as we expected. We started off by putting together hundreds of school kits for the kids. We made bags with notepads, pens, pencils, crayons, toothpaste, toothbrush, erasers, and a pencil sharpener. On Tuesday we went to the orphan apartments at Rosiori, a town about 2 and a half hours drive from Bucharesti where we are staying. There are several apartments spread all around where the orphans live so that the government doesn't have to count them as orphans. This was our first time there but we knew some of the kids from summer camp last year.

Andrea loved her school kit and was very excited to receive it. At camp we called her Punky Brewster because she has such a spitfire attitude. She's so cute though and loves attention.

We then went on to an actual orphanage in another nearby town. This is Corny, one of the H2H staff who grew up as an orphan that H2H worked with. Now she is a great help and is our guide around the city since she lives nearby. She is also the main worker in the baby hospital.

Miki found us right away, she was on our team at camp last year. She is a sweetheart.

There weren't very many kids we knew so we met lots of new ones. This girl really wanted her picture taken with Mark.

Krista, one of the H2H missionaries met some new girls too.

Here we are handing out the school kits. Our director Jen is handing them out and her church helped supply most of the items. The next day we went to the main orphanage in Peris to hand out school kits to the kids there. We had fun playing games with the kids as usual.

The end of the week was a little more laid back. We spent more time working on lesson plans for this school year for the kids. We also spent time with the rest of the staff getting to know them and hanging out. We went shopping again and finished off our list of things we needed. We have been so blessed to be able buy furnishings and kitchen supplies at IKEA and some of the other big stores around the city. We are very thankful that God has supplied us with everything we needed through generous gifts from supporters.

We also went exploring around our area in town. We are starting to get a good feel for our immediate area but this city is so huge that we will have a lot more to do before we know our way around. We went to the park next to our apartment, it is very large with a small lake in the middle. It is nice to have a place to walk that feels a little more like the country. We are enjoying being here and are looking forward to starting our language lessons this week Thursday. Would you please pray that God opens our minds and gives us the ability to learn quickly? We would really appreciate your prayers, thanks!