“Where’s the boss?” Angi asked, when we had finished our task.
“I think she went back to 5th grade!” I answered, referring to Maria,
one of Becky’s children from Casa Shalom.
Romanian children go to school at varying hours of the day, so there were a couple of them around at any given time. And they knew more about what needed to be done and where stuff was than we did, so we gladly took direction from them.
Thankfully, they were gentle taskmasters, darling and hilarious!
(scroll down to see photos!)
They help prepare and serve dinner, dressed in chef’s white cap and apron.
They speak English really well and are eager to teach us Romanian words too.
They study French in school and practiced with me on occasion!
They sing and dance and perform skits as evangelism.
They are fiesty, too, though, and
fight back when Laura chases them with whipped cream.
They threaten to flick boogers on us.
They join us in the dress up fun and participate in dance party mania.
And, oh, they like hugs!
The vision of Casa Shalom is changing.
It is no longer an “orphanage.”
Now it is more of a base for evangelism and social work.
That means that the kids are moving out and into other homes.
It is hard to say good-bye, but they are mature enough to consider it
as though their family circle is growing.
I love these kids and hope to have a house full of kids myself someday!
It has been such a blessing for me to get to love on kids in each country
(I really miss my students from Korea!),
and I am excited about getting to know more kids – and adults – in Central America.
To do that, I need approximately $1,000 more in my support account.
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