Life of Munchkin

I've just gotten back from the Chaslivtsi orphanage where we spent a couple of hours in an informal setting with the children. Many of you know that I also teach English, and one of my students came to the orphanage with us. Her first impressions were that it's dirty, and the kids are crazy, which is a pretty normal first impression.

In the first picture above, we are in our normal Thursday afternoon club. I help out with the fine arts club, which is right now learning a song. Later we will learn skits. There were four of us leaders in that room, and about 8 children, and let me tell you, we had our hands full!!! But they are all lovely kids, and I'm glad that we get to be a part of their lives.

The second picture is one of me and my roommates. That's right! look at how artistic I am!!!!

The third picture is how we have meetings...over food! I think these are the greatest meetings I've ever gone to!

In my English class, we are working on describing things. So, I took an idea used by the YWAM SBS, and used balloons, yarn, and markers to have the students design themselves, and then describe each other according to the balloons. Let me tell you, some of those students are incredible talented, artistic with those three components. I was so impressed!

In other news, tomorrow we are going to our new orphanage, and we're excited for that. We have two hours with a young group of kids that seem well-behaved. We have a great Bible story and songs and crafts prepared for them. And the three of us are going to try to sing a song in Ukrainian. Last time, when we were first meeting them, we sang Old MacDonald...they got a kick out of all of the animal noises I can make.

Anyway, that's what's new, but I guess it's not a lot new. I just wanted to be able to send y'all some pictures.

So, have a lovely day!!!!!!