Weddings are pretty popular right now here in Slavyansk. We were able to attend our second one yesterday which was a surprise to us. We knew Pastor and his family was going to one but we were going to be at the orphanage. When we got to the church, we were going to go upstairs to use the wifi to skype with the boys. Pastor Peter stopped us and asked us to join them and eat. I was embarrassed because we were in street clothes but they are so wonderful here and we never feel judged. I especially know this because we have worn the same four outfits for a month and no one has said a thing!! (I know what you are thinking….we can’t even understand them so how do we know. Ha ha) The second we sat down, three different women came to us and started spooning all kinds of food onto our plates. They like to see us eat here. I just think they feel bad for us because we have been eating nutella and jelly sandwiches for a month! Their hospitality and generosity has made us feel like we are around family and friends.
After the wedding, we came back to Pastor’s house and had a lot of fun with the kids. Shawn gave the boys punching lessons and the boys gave us Russian lessons. We have had an amazing time here and it has helped with us missing our boys. We hate to feel like an inconvenience on the family but they continue to ask us to stay. Even the older daughter Joana asked us tonight to stay another night so she can continue to practice her English.
This morning we went to church service. I would love to have it all translated because it seems so interesting and I know we would learn a lot. After the service, we sat in the café and drank coffee with some teenagers. A couple could speak a little English and they were asking us about America. Two girls said that it is their dream to go to New York and they wanted to know how much the plane tickets cost. They also asked us if there are a lot of stores and pretty lights at Christmas time. They all are very intrigued by the United States and are very determined to learn the language. We then came back to the Pastor’s house and ate lunch. I asked if Tamara could give me some receipes because all her food is so delicious and different than ours. She laughed and said I can have them if I could speak Russian. So I guess that won’t work. We allowed Tamara and Pastor Peter to nap today and we stayed up and played with all the kids. They had their cousins here as well so we had a total of 7 kids to play with. I hope they got some sleep because we were kind of loud when playing with the kids. David, their 13 year old cousin, played the piano for us and I was so amazed. It took me awhile but I was able to convince him to let me video tape him. The pedal on the piano was squeaky so you can hear that in the video but it is still worth listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shhiLUg1P_c
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| Joana, Ramina, Tamara, Dima, Pastor Peter, Thomas (Pastor and his family) The two little ones are adopted. Dima is the one from the video a couple days ago. |
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| Ramina adored Shawn and used him as her playground. |
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| Shawn getting his workout with Thomas |
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| Dima actually faught really good and gave Shawn a real match. |
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| One of the girls in Eryna's class did her hair yesterday. An 8 year old did this!! |
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