Photos - Week 2

 Friday July 6, 2012
School for the older children at the orphanage
The dorm
The kids were doing a little summer cleanup of sweeping and watering plants
Anya and Sophia painting finger nails
Mikey handing out lanyards
L:R Anya, Sophia, Luda, and Yulia

Busy painting nails
The boy looking right at the camera is Igor
The finished product.   такая красивая!
Just finished the nails and now they are dry
Playing with a flashcard app.  She is one smart girl.  Yeah, I'm biased, but I know how hard it is to learn another language.
Saturday July 7, 2012
Dorm room
Anya's bed
Our beautiful Sophia!
Anya posing
BFF! Now we pray someone has a heart for Anya and brings her to North Carolina! These two are almost inseparable.
More to come...
Sophia took about 50 pictures today, it will take some time to upload them all.
Their park
Anya
Big things in a small package
Sophia's turn in front of the lens
Anya
More Anya
These two girls had a great time taking pictures!
Anya 
Sophia's turn again
Anya is not shy in front of the camera
Strike a pose
Glamour Shots Ukraine
The memory and the battery on our camera are shrinking
School for the younger children
Still more to come...
Sophia and a friend...I will get her name
Luda and Sophia
Another friend (I didn't have a chance to review these and get names) and Sophia
Anya
Anya being silly
Luda and Anya
Anya, Lera, Luda, and ? - I really will get their names, this bothers me
Auktem and Anya
Sophia and Auktem
These eyes and faces are so full of life, they just need a chance.
And yet there are more, I told you they were busy.
Enlarge any of these pictures and look at the hope in their eyes.
The boys here really need to see an example of what it means to be a man
Anya and Yulia
Friends
Sophia wanted to show her friends the video we made at the beach for her prior to coming here.
Me and Vitalik
That's it for today.  I'm sure tomorrow will have some interesting pictures from the soccer game.
Sunday July 8, 2012
The craft of the day was bookmarks
Vova - so precious
Marina
Sophia
Druzya!
Dima is an awesome boy.
Will post more later as I have a bunch from today as well.
Shooting hoops
 Our connection is a little better today and this snuck into the mix, but it's not that big.

Yulia, Anya, and Luda
Yulia and Anya
Anya and Lisa
Sophia and Luda
Anya and Sophia
Yulia and Luda
This is one of my favoritest (I know it's not a word) pictues of Anya
Anya and Sophia
CW from Left: Yulia, Sophia, Anya, and Luda
Monday July 9, 2012
Lozovoyeh (sp?) River Bed
Before
After
Hike by the river
Our first stopping area...the water felt great.
Look out world!
Looking at the developed pictures from Sophia's day with the camera
Listening to music
Queen Luda!
We are American after all.  Though we don't eat at McD's that often in the states, we do like the fries.
Tuesday July 10, 2012
Scrapbooking coming soon!  Unfortunately all our scrapbooking pictures from this morning were deleted.

Birthday Girl!
Yulia is hit or miss on being in front of the camera
See what I mean.
I like this one because we were joking about it and Luda was taking the pictures
Моя красивая жена!
I'm not looking!
Precious child
Wednesday July 11, 2012
A belated birthday celebration
Birthday gifts! 
We're not sure they have a brush, maybe we do a hair makeover day...I'm good at that.  :)
Cutting off the tags, check out Luda's smile!
She is a very humble girl
Having a laugh
The activity where everyone had a turn
The children don't like to sit on the cold concrete as their bum gets cold, so they squat.
Long distance photo, I think I actually caught her smiling.  She smiles a lot, it's just hard to get her in front of the camera.
Our driver, Yevgeny, looking at the photo album  they made yesterday.
Thursday July 12, 2012
Today I will ask them what they like and don't like...
The boys really got involved with the train
The finished product
Mikey and Axtem
Lisa helping with the train
Marina was happy to answer questions
This wraps up our second week in Ukraine.  Though we left Raleigh on a Wednesday, we've only been here for two weeks.

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