Next week will be our last here in Novagard, then we are off to Budapest for the EFCCM European Missionary Conference and two weeks from today, we'll be back home in Manitoba. This week was much like last week, picking up bread, helping with the food handouts at the center and doing the English club for kids on Wednesday and Thursday. Of course those were the two hottest days of the week 33 C (or 91 F).
Wednesday we did our 8 KM walk at 6:30 in the morning, Thursday it was 8:30 and we only did 2 miles because it was too hot out already. The class is from 11 to noon. On Thursday two kids came in late, they had walked there without their mother because their baby brother was sleeping, the girl is seven and the boy is maybe nine!
They were doing some work outside our apartment building this week, on Wednesday the water was off for several hours, we were debating cooking versus going out for dinner (we had shopped after class for ingredients for dinner), at five, still no water, but it came on at six and I made the planned stir fry on bulgar (I needed water to cook the bulgar).
Thursday evening we walked to the grocery store, instead of Garry's usual bike trip to the basketball court (often with the neighbor, an about eight year old Ukrainian boy). Afterwards, there was some thunder and rain, it cooled off some, although it's still muggy today. Pastor Cezary was sick today so his wife came to the help center instead, we didn't have many volunteers today, so I got to put more items out for people when they came.
Back in the village in Ukraine, the church had VBS, and the farm is still baling straw.
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