Day 8

Very busy day trying to find our way around the city.  Most everyone walks or takes buses.  We are so thankful for our missionary friend Kyle who is from Virgina who has taken us under his wing and trying to teach all we need to know to be here.  He stayed with us all day yesterday.  He is teaching English in one of the orphanages and is currently working on getting funding to set up a home where children can go after they leave the orphanage at age 16.  He works with a canadian pastor missionary.  We will attend their church tomorrow night. He took us to McDonalds and the mall.  Also took us to a sanitorium for orphans who need time away from the regular orphanage, they might be ill, or need discipleine, or just some rest.  Didn't really figure out why they got sent there.  Usually stay there for about 2 weeks at a time.  The kids were very interested in us as Americans.  They asked us why Americans want to adopt Ukraine children????  I told them because they are so cute!  They laughed.  They did not want to leave us, they were all around us in a circle.  Kyle needed to go there because itwas one of his English students birthday and he was at this facility and he wanted to bring a big bag of cookies for his birthday.
Then it was on to do more paperwork,  Seems like the paperwork never ends!  You wait and wait and wait because they write everything by hand here. And then you sign.  By about 4p.m. we were able to go to the orphanage and see the girls once again and talk about the names they wanted on their new documents.  Olessia wanted to keep her name and Alina thought she might like to change her name but we only had about 15 minutes to decide so we decided they would keep their Russian names and use there mothers name as the middle name. Their mothers died 3 years ago of a leak in the brain.  I did not want to take their mothers memory away from them.  So the new names are:  Alessia ( A Lay Sa) Angela ( an gel a) Bunton and Alina (a leen a)Angela Bunton. They were happy and wanted us to tell it to them so they could say it in English.
They were proud of themselves. 
We have a court date this morning and then wait about 2 weeks for the final court date. We can visit the girls every day after school and on the weekends.  There are 5 american families at our orphanage adopting at this time.  All the kids wanted me to take their pictures yesterday.  I finally just had to say no more, tomorrow.  They are all so cute.  Eash orphanage has a grandma, so the kids wanted me to take her picture, the grandmas are so cute.  She was so happy to see her picture.  She just kept looking and smiling. 
We went out to dinner with Kyle and we were adventourous so we took the bus home in the dark by ourselves for the first time.  We got off at the wrong stop and had to walk for awhile, but with Kyle on the phone and Jesus in our hearts to help us we found our way.