Right now two families who adopted from Dennis' orphanage should be on planes on the way home. That's pretty exciting and Dennis has been praying for them for weeks. Looking forward to showing him pictures of the kids he knows with families in America.
We had a little "incident" with one of the kids and Dennis' DSi this morning. It was good to see them work to repair that relationship. The DSi itself is fine so all will be well in the world :)
Today we tried to call S, no answer. We'll try again tomorrow after church. If that fails we'll see if we can get a translator to call the school with us next week and talk with her. That way we can find out if she's getting any of our packages, if there is a better way for us to get ahold of her, or what not. Dennis will be at school though. We actually told her how to SMS us before we left so maybe she can SMS us on the weekends when it is a good time to talk.
We are going to write letters to all the kids, Ukraine gma, and I think we may send an update to the director of the orphanage. Melissa is back to work so we are fully in the daily grind of life... with things settled it's time to catch up from what has happened and prepare for summer hosting too. No rest... but we are good with that :)
I can't remember if I told you this or not, but I cornered S one day this past week and told her to turn her phone on b/c you were trying to call. She said it was on. Not sure if she understood what I was saying or not. I realized that Alex wasn't getting some of the texts I was sending her b/c...she was trading sim cards. What a surprise, huh?
ReplyDeleteThanks Susan. I'm not sure why minutes are still dropping off her phone but it looks like she stopped using the SIM card on 2/19. I wonder if it broke, maybe the billing is just delayed since in the first month it wouldn't say anything.
ReplyDeleteShe's a smart girl though... we've provided her a half dozen ways to communicate with us including through you.
For a while we would get her friends that she had let borrow her SIM. The SIM we gave her still has money on it so people would love to use it if she wasn't.
I don't know if you'll be letting Alex call people back there... if you hear anything about S please let us know.
Oh, another thing I realized today. USPS first class mail to Ukraine only shows it leaving the US. Priority mail appears to give delivery confirmation even if at a basic level.
ReplyDeleteWe are going to try to use that for a while so we can at least know when to ask if she got a package. Right now we might as well be throwing the packages into the garbage. The Christmas candy/presents we sent on 12/20 show they arrived on 1/13. Snezhana said she never got it but we will reconfirm.