Bingo And Goodbye

We've haven't updated you recently and now we've arrived at the end of our time in Ukraine.

All week the game of Bingo has been central to our daily activities. After teaching our classes, the entire group of kids gathered in one classroom to play Bingo of all sorts and varieties. We've played single, double, postage-stamp, filling the entire card, etc. I think we've played so much Bingo, some of us are beginning to call out numbers in our sleep.

The students LOVE Bingo, it's probably all the "prizes" we give to the winners, sunglasses, candy, bracelets are truly popular items for the children to win. And they now know how to say numbers and letters in English!

On Friday our teaching week came to an end and Saturday was a day for goodbyes. Some of the children from St. Michael's Children Home and their parents, along with Maria Biro came to bid us farewell after some lunch and cake in Susanna's beautiful backyard.

After an afternoon of shopping with Kati, we said goodbye to her as well. As much as we are all looking forward to returning home, there have been hugs and tears too.

This has been an amazing trip for each one of us. We will be traveling to Budapest Sunday, and then on to the U.S. on Tuesday.

We are now in the process of attempting to fit all our purchases and gifts into bulging suitcases. I doubt that we'll have much room left to shop in Budapest, but you never know.

By the way, the group from Ohio will be bringing two high school students with them on Tuesday. This will be Andrew's and Timea's first plane trip and they are truly excited about spending a month in the U.S. They will also be traveling to Arizona for a few days.

We will try to find time to blog while in Budapest. We will be blogging after we get home so we can share more of our adventures with you.

Blessings to you all. See you soon!