DIARY 6
Monday December 12th 2011
The team
from Beaulieu Convent School have now left and are (as I write) are in Budapest
ready for their plane on Tuesday morning. Victor the pastor at Berechiu and Cefa and also
part-time supervisor at Casa Mabel site is with them. He has been the driver
most of the time and so has had 8 women in tow – we called ourselves “Victor’s
Harem”!!! I have heard from Marta that they went out for a meal and are looking
forward to a decent lie-in before their plane. They will be sad to say Good bye
to Victor as he is so caring – it is lovely to see his compassion with the
elderly at Casa Mabel and with the kindergarten children too.
But back
to the day’s events! With all bags packed and loaded they arrived at Cefa to distribute in 3 local schools – Cefa,
Inand and the Mustard Seed Romania kindergarten.
There was concern expressed at the poor conditions in some of the schools and
the difference in the good feeling of love, which they felt was especially noticable in our own kindergarten.
While at
Casa Mabel for lunch (again very traditional) we found that we are all thinking
alike. It is Alex’s policy to always give a shoebox to the teacher as he knows
they are far from well off, so they receive a child’s box. We all agreed a
teacher’s box is needed, containing personal toiletry items and stationery and
useful teacher style items. Michala was writing lists
of contents in the minibus on the way back to Oradea.
We said
our Goodbyes and they went with Victor to Budapest while I came back to Ken and
Florence’s in Cihei. In the evening we went to Geo
and Simona’s for a meal which was lovely – in honour
of this I put on a clean pair of trousers but on arrival the dogs (St Bernards) were so pleased to see us that one slobbered all
over my clean trousers!!!
Now I am
here alone my programme will be far quieter – fewer distributions and visits
and more monitoring and reports and planning but I will continue the diaries
though every other day as
there is unlikely to be enough to write each day! I will try again to upload
more photos but we will see how that works out.
It has
been really good having Marta, Clare, Debbie, Michala,
Rachel, Charlotte and Becky from Beaulieu Convent School – the Romanians have really appreciated their visit
and I know I have enjoyed the company and the opportunity to show the work her
to others.