2/09/2009 MONDAY

At 7:30 a.m., out Translator, Austop, picked us up (in the rain) to load up one huge suitcase to take to Kramatorsk to leave with our host family...thus making it possible to fit in the car better on Tuesday when we move up to Kramatorsk. Dodging HUGE potholes in the road, we finally arrived at Ynakieve, to meet with the Inspector and the Director. Documents were exchanged
so we were able to see the children. We were able to visit with Yuri for a short while in the
Director's office. He sat quietly on the sofa with us and asked to see the small photo album we had prepared for him. He remembered what we had said about each photo and quietly went
through the entire album with one of his teachers that was also in the meeting. Yuri pointed to a
television in the corner of the office (while the Social Worker and Director and our Translator
worked on filling out the proper documents) and whispered to me the Russian word for television...VERY SLOWLY...so Mama could learn to pronounce it. It was time for us to go, so Yuri walked us to the door and gave us each a big hug.