| | Well I think everyone would agree that the past two days have been rather exhausting. OAZA has their open house coming up on Saturday, where they are showing the house to everyone that has worked on it in the past year...and that means that we are being put to work 
Yesterday we showed up in the morning and Scott was waiting for us. Janet and Susan started painting while Paige, Bryan and I helped Scott move a bunch of bricks over to the Joy House (we have been primarily at the Shalom House up until now). After we dropped off the bricks we picked up a bunch of computers to bring back over to the other house. I guess Paula and some others are going to be starting up some computer classes for community kids around the house. There was only one computer over there the other day but hopefully by tomorrow there will be more than 10 up and running.
After we dropped off the computers the rest of us joined Janet and Susan who were still painting. You'd be amazed at how much painting five people can get done in one afternoon. After some more PB&J's for lunch (surprisingly I don't think any one is sick of those sandwiches yet  ) Bryan, Paige, and Janet kept painting while Susan, Dr. Rose, Anita, and I kept crocheting with the kids (truth be told, I don't think I have developed my crocheting talents enough to help any of the kids, but they seem to be getting along fine without my abilities  ).
Yesterday I had a traumatic experience when one of the kids accidentally dropped my camera. I was getting close to a nervous breakdown without my camera...but Paula Dunn (who has been absolutely amazing to us since we got here) and came thorough again and got my camera fixed.
After OAZA we went over to Mama Maria's again and had another enormous dinner. This time there was more soup (Janet is calling it Chicken-Veggie-Sour-Cream-Soup) and it was once again delicious. After the soup we had huge plates of Chicken and Rice and Corn. After dinner we got to meet Idina's friend Nora who is a nurse in Romania and she told us a lot about what health care is like over here. Apparently Mama Maria was not satisfied with stuffing us to the gills with dinner, so after Nora left she brought out two enormous plates of homemade donuts. They looked absolutely delicious so of course we ate dozens of them on full stomachs. I am surprised we are not all in food-induced comas today.
Today we went back over to the house and got working again. Janet (who loves painting so much that I am under the opinion that she should take up interior designing when she is not teaching) continued painting the kitchen with Bryan while Susan, Paige, and I tore up the ground out front in an attempt to level it out. If anyone had been watching, I'm sure we would have looked as if we were doing nothing more than swinging shovels around and pushing piles of dirt...but after a couple of hours it miraculously looked pretty decent. Hopefully there will be some turf down for Saturday.
After lunch (can you guess what we ate?) Susan and I undertook the Herculean task of moving a multitude of wooden pieces up into the attic. I'm not sure how many of you spend your days in attics in 90 degree days, but I can tell you that they can get quite toasty. Somehow (after an hour of sweating more than I ever have in my entire life) we managed to get most of the wood upstairs, while the others continued to paint. We then sat down for some more crocheting time with the kids.
We left around 5 and when we got back Paula ordered us some pizza. For some reason Dr. Rose thought the total was 91 lei so we just gave the guy 100 to cover the tip. However after looking at the receipt we realized that the total was 74...no wonder the guy was so happy when we told him to keep the change 
After consuming almost three enormous pizzas (one of which a delicious Romanian specialty of ham and corn) Paula took us downtown for ice cream. Now we are back at the hotel, ready for our beauty sleep. Hope everyone is doing well back across the ocean...we will see you soon!
- Matt and the rest of the team
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