Well it’s been a very busy couple of weeks. We played host to
a team from Port Colborne, Ontario as well as surprise house guest. All of this was tied in with
Women’s Day celebrations all week, celebrating March birthdays at Sunshine
Orphanage, my report writing for Operations CAN be Done and another flood in my
kitchen.
This time the kitchen drain backed up and went all over the floor
(yuk). I’m bailing the sink as fast as I can with one hand while dialling
for help with the other. And once again our translator, her husband, her
mother and her plumber father-in-law arrived within the hour. Then the
house guests come home to do their own thing (getting in the way). Then
the city had to be called to come snake the drains (waiting game). And
somehow in all of the confusion I see my door open and the downstairs neighbour
is pushing her cat into my apartment. So now we’re chasing this cat through
the apartment as if we didn’t already have enough going on. I think it
was a stunt for the nosey neighbour to get into the apartment and see what was
happening. It was not a good night.
This week I’ve been busy again tying things up here in Krivoy Rog
before I leave for Kyrgyzstan tomorrow night (March 23rd). I take the night train
to Kyiv then to the airport on Saturday morning for my flight to Istanbul and then
on to Bishkek. I’ll be living in Tokmok for 3 months and then back to Ukraine
in June.
It’s still a bit surreal to me that this is finally happening.
It’s taken since July 2007 to get this far. If you had asked me then if I
thought I would be at this point now I would have said a big no with all that I
had to overcome and had to deal with at the time. (See my previous blog
entries.) It’s been a long road but after many, many miracles – there’s
just no other word for it - all of the logistics are still falling into place
miraculously. It’ll all probably sink in somewhere between Istanbul and
Bishkek…lol. I am so looking forward to seeing friends again and meeting
friends in person that I have only communicated with on line so far. Yet
on the other hand I am going to miss my Krivoy Rog family. (Strangely, I
don’t miss Canada yet - is that wrong?)
So the next leg of my adventure is beginning. I’ll keep
posting blog entries as I am able so stay tuned. I ask for your continued
prayers and support and as I have said before, thank you for seeing my
heart. Till next time…Я люблю тебя!
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| The kids at Dome Invalid put on a musical play for Women's Day. It was very well done. Just don't ask me the storyline...my Russian is STILL pathetic. |
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| Passing out flowers to the Sunshine Orphanage directors for Women's Day. |
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| The traditional Ukrainian bread welcome for the Port Colborne team. |
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| Making a presentation to Ed Dickson for his birthday. |
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| The March birthday kids. |
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