Quilting

It is Monday, I think, at 8:22 P.M. We have had dinner and part of the kids are out sledding and part are playing volleyball and I am not sure where the rest are. I am choosing to hide in this room for a while.

It has been a very busy day. We had a tour of the building. They really do a lot for these kids. The kids go to school for the first half of the day and the second half of the day they take their "specials" at the orphanage. They have a room for cooking, sewing, music, art and probably more that I can't remember right now. Oh, I forgot gym. They have a doctor and a dentist. Everything is so old. It is just amazing to me. If we went to a doctors office and it looked like this we would turn around and leave! And the dentist office, oh my. You just can't imagine. Now remember I have told you that they have 120 children. The doctor told us today they only have 1 package of sanitary napkins in stock for the girls right now. How long do you think that will last? Their budget for health care for the children is equal to $1. Of course it is a Socialist country so they have public healthcare, but for anything extra that is all they have.

After the tour we attended a play put on by a group of visiting children. It was Romeo and Juliet. Very entertaining! The Russian Orthodox Priest came to this play and spoke to us. Of course, I have no idea what he said. He sure looked the part.

Shortly after lunch we prepared all the presents for the Christmas party. That was a lot of fun. Each child is getting several gifts. That party will be on the sixth.


In the afternoon we attended their Christmas concert. They emphasize the arts here as well as the rest of Russia. They have a music room where I saw at least 3 pianos and maybe accordions and several guitars. The children played their instruments and sang and danced. This was pretty impressive. They have a lot of talent.

Finally, it was time to quilt. I took one group and another group had a make up demonstration. You will not believe this, but I had 6 boys and 1 girl. Most of the fabric that I brought was pretty girly but we made the best of it. It went so well. The interpreter started out in our room. The sewing machines are the same brand as mine, which helped, but much older. The sewing teacher was there also, which really helped. Caitlin, Caralee and Cydney also helped me. They got them sewn together but still need to do a little cutting and touch up things. It was fun. I took some pictures. Actually, I think the teacher was more excited than the kids. She made one also. Our fabric is so much nicer. If you think about sheets and thread count. The thread count on this fabric must be about 100 or less. It is very stiff. Very poor quality.

By the time we finished up with the quilts it was dinner time. More bread. More cheese. More soup. (good this time) Lots of water. And now get ready for another day.

I think that I said that we were going shopping today. Well we could not go because the weather was to bad. You could never guess what made the weather bad????? It rained!

I hate it that my spell check does not work. When I get home and look over this I am going to be so embarrassed! Just bare with me! More tomorrow!

We plan to attend a drug rehab and have a party for the youth of the church. Until then.