Today M’Kayla and I had a “McDonalds and a movie” day with the girls from the Buckner group home after finishing up our last program with the 5 year olds at the CDC in the morning. The group home girls had never been to the “cinema” in town so it was a treat and a new experience for all of them! There was a comedy playing that was in English with Romanian subtitles so that everyone could have a chance to enjoy the movie—Alexandra said that this is how most of the movies are. They must learn to watch American movies with Romanian subtitles at a very young age! Their theatres are about twice the size of our regular theatres in America and they’re set up in more of an actual theatre style than ours are. We even got our own private viewing for the day! It was so interesting to watch it in a different country because there are no trailers or advertisements of any kind. They simply close all the curtains (for the doors) and start playing the movie right away. As soon as the movie is over, they play the credits for a couple of seconds and then it shuts right off. Very interesting to see how they do it over here! After the movie we all went for supper at McDonalds which is also something that the girls rarely get. We all had a full meal and a delicious ice cream cone afterwards – everyone had full tummies for the walk back home!
M’Kayla and I meet up with the first mission trip team tomorrow and head to camp for the week with all the kids from the Zau orphanage and the girls from the group home. We are so excited to work with the kids all week that we have been building relationships with since we have arrived in Romania. Pray for all the kids to be receptive of what we are trying to teach them and for them to participate in what we are doing—a lot of them are very close to our age! They usually participate very well (because we always make sure to participate WITH them to put them more at ease) but it’s always something to keep in mind and pray over!
We leave our Hotel Iris (home sweet home) tomorrow for a new adventure 🙂