Serving in Our World: Bananas!

They have banana flavored milk here! It is super good! I could live on this stuff.

That was my big discovery this week.

It was so good being back at the orphanage this Monday after being sick. This Monday was actually Pentecost Monday apparently, so there were a lot less workers at the orphanage and a lot of the other interns went to Orthodox services in the morning instead. Because of the holiday, there also was no daycare (there's a daycare for special needs kids on the first floor of the orphanage) so a girl in my room who is normally at the daycare most of the time was there a lot longer than normal. She is such a sweetheart and loves to be held and carried around.

This is basically my summer in a nutshell. The children are so very wonderful and smile at the littlest things.

On Wednesday, it was Brooke Day's birthday. We all got food and had lunch on the Palace lawn. There was also a concert on the lawn that appeared to be from a children's singing school. There were some super talented kids in that group.

On Friday, we had a bit of a late night, but we went and got McDonald's and saw The Fault in Our Stars at the movie theater in the mall. (It was in English with Romanian subtitles) It was actually pretty cool having subtitles. It helped for the times when they were talking really quietly and it was funny to see how they translated certain phrases... like apparently "Wow" is "Mamă"...