Rogova - Part 2

Today was pretty relaxing when you compare it to all of our other days here so far. I got up late (I forgot it was Saturday and my alarm was only set for weekdays), especially since I was up until like 11:15 last night playing with three of the girls at the orphanage. After I got dressed, I opened my door and the girls came in and played with my new fan (Jerry got it Friday afternoon so I wouldn’t die in the middle of the night). They just stood in front of it and enjoyed having it blow their hair around. I ate some breakfast with the kids (an omelet with ham in it; I tried to be polite and just ate around the ham) and then I helped Bella (who is almost two) eat her breakfast. Once she was done, I headed over to the house right as everyone here was finishing their morning meeting. We reloaded the toy/game bags and walked back to the orphanage to play with the kids there. We hung out there for a few hours and at some delicious donuts that Felicia (the house mother) made. We came back to the house around 1:00 to eat lunch (cabbage, snitzel, French fries, and crepes) and then headed out to Rogova in the afternoon. We hung out with the kids there again for about an hour and a half and it was all much more low-key today. I gave a lot of the face paint markers and nail polish to the older girls and they did a lot of the face painting and nail painting for us. Around 5:00, we started a church service that seemed to last forever. There was a mandolin performance, some singing by the kids, and what felt like a lot of sermons and stories. That all finished around 7:15 and we hung around for a little bit longer “trash talking” with the guys who beat us at soccer yesterday! While everyone else said goodbye, I got Sammy to translate to the girls (who did not want to let me go!) that I would be here another two weeks and they were pretty excited! They also were like “dos semanas?” and I started laughing because some of them are the ones who understand Spanish from the Spanish soap operas they watch here. Right now, it’s about 8:30 and we’re just hanging around the house waiting for some dinner (even though we’re all pretty stuffed still from lunch)....