Carrefour Carnival

Last night, Rogova was awesome (as always). Chad and I talked about our stories/history with the teens (when they broke off from the main service) and it was fun and funny! The teens in Rogova are and have always been my favorite so any time I get to spend with them there is the best! When we got back from Rogova, Sammy dropped us off at Carrefour and we picked up a few things for dinner. One the way back, we walked through the carnival that has been set up for the weekend in the parking lot. We picked up some hollow bread (there was a stand there) and we ate that and some cotton candy last night (and some more today!). When we got back to the house, Cathy was telling us that she was making sandwiches with yogurt for dinner and Chad and I both thought there was going to be yogurt in the sandwich. We later found out though that it was just grilled cheese with yogurt to drink (which was delicious)! I got back to the orphanage last night around 10:30 and everything was quite. I thought everyone was asleep but of course, I was wrong! Feli got back with the older kids just a few minutes after me; they picked up some food from Carrefour and we all sat around eating it. Well, I tried it instead of really sitting down to eat since I had already stuffed my face at the house. Plus, it was little fishies that had a very strong flavor so I only ate one little one! Around 11:00 or so, I went upstairs to bed and it was super hot outside (and inside). I was just laying there on top of the covers sweating profusely. And that was with the fan on me on full blast! I had the windows closed since the carnival music was so loud but fortunately, it stopped around 12:30 and I opened the windows. It was much cooler then because a cold front came through. Today, it was pleasant (figuratively speaking; it's still hot and we sweat all the time but at least it's like 85 now instead of 95) in the morning during the first service of the day but it's gotten a bit hot this afternoon. We're all resting for a little bit now since we took the kids to  the carnival earlier and it wiped us all out! We have about another hour and a half to kill before the evening service and I'm busy working on getting my pictures up and catching up on work stuff!

Pictures from the past two days!

General observations over the last two days:

1) I don't think there are car seats here.

2) People here are totally acclimated to the heat. When they turn the air on, they only leave it one for like 3 minutes and then turn it off. A woman in the service this morning was cold after the air was on for just a few minutes even though it was still pretty warm in the room.