Sunday, February 21, 2010

Jason's Update


I thought you all might like to hear a bit from Jason's perspective, so here you go...

Day 5 to visit Maks!

Today we arrived at the orphanage and were ushered into the music room to await Maks' grand entrance as always. With in a few minutes he waddled in-in his usual fashion. Everyday I have the camcorder ready for this grand entrance. He was sporting a big smile, saw his mom and ran with outstretched arms to meet her. The camera man never gets the glory...guess I am just the unsung hero. We brought him some juice we purchased at the local Novokuznetsk grocery store and diluted it with water and poured it into my empty Power Ade bottle. This works much better than a regular water bottle and he seems to really love it. The music room is a bit bland for his personality as their is not much for him to play with. So he decided to have some gold fish crackers/animal crackers/ and a few cookies.

The Sandra's gave Maks a pair of green plastic sunglasses that he loved to wear and run around with. He also loved to put them on mom and dad as well-then laugh at how cool we looked.

At the end of every meeting I turn the camera back on to catch his classic good byes. Paka-Paka means Bye-bye in Russian. As soon as that is said he knows to throw us a big wave.

After the hour long drive back to our hotel, we went to our room and rested a bit before going to lunch. We went to the Russian restaurant next to our hotel for some local Russian fare. Then we went to the grocery store to grab some water and things for dinner. We walked to both places in a blizzard, hard snow accompanied with sideways driving winds. Chicago would shutdown with such snow falls...here in Siberia, life must go on and is an everyday occurrence in the winter. Snow shoveling and removal is an all day and never ending process.

I am attaching a pic of the aforementioned restaurant we have frequented.

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