2nd Bonding Day

Dec/04/09
Today we had our 2nd bonding day. It went ok however all 3 kids all have a cough and running noses. Dylan (Korkem) did not want to eat much, he felt pretty warm, I don't know if he had fever or if it's because the bonding room where we are in is EXTREMELY HOT!!! He did play a little and then fell asleep in my arms for about 20 minutes. Our 2hrs came and went by really fast! The driver than took us all to a big super market. I saw a little corner where they sold C.D.'s, and I had to have one. I tried to tell the salesman that I wanted the cd he was playing... ya right, who the hell understood each other. Fil then went to get that german couple and their translator we are with at the orphanage, so I told the german guy that I wanted a c.d. in Kazak he then told his German/Kazak translator and the translator then told the salesman. wow, everything is complicated here but funny!!! People still insist on talking to you in Kazak even if you tell them you don't speak Kazak!!

The owner of the house where we live is extremely nice and his 20 yr old daughter takes care of the house including when the internet doesn't work. They run at everything we ask them. You should see us trying to talk to her with our little russian/english book. She is too cute and nice, we really have nice laughs when we're together. People from opposites end of the country trying to communicate in sign language and looking up words in our little book.

We go to a little super market near our house everyday, it's about 10 minutes away, people stare at us all the time and follow us all over the store and using their tengue $$$ is not easy to get used to. We cook our own food, we don't eat meat here, it does not look very appetizing.

We posted some pictures of the orphanage, our neighborhood, our kitchen and the view from our bedroom. The roosters, the barking dogs, the meowing cats in our neighborhood go at it every day and night and we hear them from our room!!! The weather is very good, the house is a little too warm and we're not able to lower the heating as it's centrally controlled but it's really ok, we just open our windows. We hang our clothes on the hot water tubes and it does the job really well and fast!! We have no oven, no toaster and no coffee machine. Thank god I brought my new little gadget that I bought at Walmart to make Filtered coffee 1 cup at a time and I also brought my Tim Horten coffee!!! But we adjust ourselves accordingly, we prepared ourself for much worse than this BUT WE REALLY CANNOT COMPLAIN because it's just a matter of adjusting yourself and LOWERING YOUR STANDARD OF LIVING!!! We came here for one purpose and that purpose was not VACATION but rather to COMPLETE OUR DREAM!!

Fil made us a nice breakfast this morning, very delicious!!! Our schedule for the bonding for now is from 16:00 to 18:00.
have a great week-end
mary and fil