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| She made me this flower at school. |
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| This was a fun picture she came home with another day. |
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| This is my favorite. If you look, you can see it spells out I-R-A. :) |
It's been interesting watching her as she's been back to America for a few weeks now. She still tells me (whenever she's upset about something) that she wants to go back to Ukraine. This last time it was, "No Mama, no Papa. Orphanage." LOL Yes, I honestly CAN laugh about it. I don't take it personally. This isn't to say that if she catches me on a bad day that I won't take it personally, but still. This didn't happen to be one of those days. She wants to live with her godmother. She just KNOWS that she would take her in once she ages out of the orphanage. Ah well. I just told her that she is welcome to go back to Ukraine once she turns 18. I will miss her a lot, but if that's what she wants to do, she is welcome to. When she's happy about how things are going, she doesn't really seem to want to go back though.
She and Little One have taken over my yarn stash. There are crochet hooks flying all over the place. Today Ira made me a little bag. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it was sweet of her. :) Little One is practicing chains like no other. She's making everyone "necklaces." Ira just came and asked me if she could make me a blanket. She's also working on a doily out of string. I just hope my hooks don't disappear on me.
Sunday was awesome! I took Ira down to hear Elder Hall speak. He was the one that was so kind as to interpret for Little One in primary one week while we were in Ukraine. It was really nice to break from routine and go down there. Little One wanted to see him again, but not on a Sunday. She said her friends would wonder if she was sick. LOL Elder Hall's talk was wonderful and just what it should be. You can always tell the really good missionaries and he is one of them. It was fun to see his personality a bit more than I'd gotten to see the two times I saw him in Ukraine. :) I got to visit a bit with his father while Elder Hall visited in Russian with Ira. His father is also very kind and if I'd known his mom was his mom, then I would have introduced myself to her. Hopefully I'll have the chance another time.
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| In case you forgot, this was us in Ukraine. Elder Hall is the one next to Little One. |
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| Here we are at the homecoming! |
School is drawing to a close and I don't know what in the world I'm going to do all summer. Ira has really enjoyed school and isn't looking forward to it ending. I've quite enjoyed it too and am also not looking forward to it ending! Hopefully we'll all manage instead of reverting back to how things were a few weeks ago!
Her English is coming quite well. She seems to be understanding more and more all the time. We really enjoy having Elena come over once a week to help her as well.
As for Russian, I'm coming along too. Not nearly as fast as she is with English, mind you. However, I don't exactly use much with her. I'm learning more for me than for her. I'll talk to Masha a bit here and there though. I keep asking her grammar questions. :) I've been really liking Rosetta Stone, but I've been very glad to have someone to ask things of. Speaking of Masha, I've gotten to chat with her a couple more time. That's always very nice.
Well, I suppose that's all the updates for now.
