This year we hope to get Yana moved back in her home by the end of the week. She may have to wait a few days for running water, the guys who dug the cistern are now working on cementing the sides.
Max showed them how on Wednesday, after English class with Nelly at 8 am, while Garry had another group working on building more picket fence sections for the Crawford's yard and (I believe) to replace Yana's fence also. In a few weeks the village herd of cows will be going through the village morning and evening on their way to the pastures.
Garry worked Thursday and Friday on taking off the loose floor tiles, cleaning them up and putting them back down. He then locked the door and took the key so no one walked on them. The reason they came off was that they broke loose from people walking on them the morning after his late night tiling the floor last week. At least the kitchen cabinets and tub were installed over the good ones, he said it was a pathway of loose ones where people had stepped. Of course there is only one door and one way in the house!
After our Wednesday work day... and yes I made them lunch again, after I had put all the plastic soup bowls away Tuesday afternoon, I got them back out and served spaghetti in them for the students, Garry and Max. The students kept calling it macaroni.
The temperature was dropping all day Wednesday and Thursday morning there was snow on the ground. It melted quickly but during cooking class giant snowflakes were falling off and on.
Thursdays are always busy for me. Julia had asked about making the potato filled pirog I had made when the team was here, so that was the class. Think cheese and mashed potato in a calzone. I started the dough early and class still ran more than two hours. By the time they ate and left the house, it was time to hurry up and get lunch on the table for Garry, the girls and Nelly, whom I'd invited to stay.
We had our usual Thursday afternoon staff meeting at 1:30 until after 3. We left home at 5 to drive Nelly and a group of students to the mall in Zaporosia so they could shop while we went to Steve and Jo's for our small group meeting. The Crawfords drive themselves with the new students shopping in the city plan.
Friday by noon Garry and I were off for our weekend escape so he could rest a bit after working so hard for the last couple weeks. Of course he was back to teaching his English conversation classes, three hours Friday before we have our SEI follow up book club meeting, plus four and a half hours teaching on Saturday, so we are staying in Dnepro.
Friday afternoon while he was teaching I found former students Karina and Vika working at the mall. They had been phoning Garry about something. Karina, although happy to see me, was disappointed that Garry was teaching English. I gathered that they needed money because they weren't getting paid yet for the new job- they are cleaners at the food court. Garry got a phone call from them as we were finishing up at Patona and driving Sweta toward her stop (we drop a couple of the ladies who attend off going through Dnepro on our way home every week). We ended up meeting the girls downtown.
They had a free place to stay with "a lady from the church" but were out of money for food. We took them to KFC (it was 9:30 by the time we found them and we'd skipped dinner) bought them some food, which they shared with their friend, an orphan guy that Vika knew from the orphanage she was in. He knew several of the students who are still in the program so we talked about how everyone is doing.
Then we proceeded with Karina's plan, we bought them some groceries, basic food like macaroni, gretshka, tea, sugar, and apples Garry added to their list, so they could eat until they get paid on the tenth. Karina took the receipt for 230 grivna (about $8.50 US) because she said she is going to pay Garry back.
Hoping to have a restful Sunday before heading back to the village and work on Monday.
Couldn't finish the post when the internet went off this morning before we left for church. We enjoyed seeing everyone at Morningstar church this morning, however it wasn't as restful an afternoon as I'd hoped.
We went to a birthday party for the English school Garry teaches at.
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