Day 3.....
Chicken, AGAIN. The vegetarians seem to be suffering - today at a Lebanese restaurant Mishi declared that in Lebanon they class lamb as a vegetarian option.... ( We think he was joking)
The holiday club was the best ever today - when we arrived the kids were ready and waiting (they were early, apparently unheard of for the gypsy community!), boys very excited for the football and the girls interested in lots of hugs and attention. There were even more children today - the families are so big here that word travels fast and each day they bring more and more cousins! Those with blue eyes were particularly favoured - so many children were pointing and the phrase "you have beautiful eyes" was very common! Alice (or Alee-chay, as they call her) had an admirer who was fascinated by her blue eyes and blonde hair!
The songs are very popular, as are the dramatic retellings of Bible stories - each day sees Jon fall on the floor at some point, which seems to be a highlight for the kids! Today we told the story of Daniel in the lion's den and the lion mask craft was extremely successful with lots of "grrr"s from the kids.
The boys were also terrorised by a small girl in a pink dress who was keen to punch them all in the stomach!
This afternoon we visited a museum of peasant history, an outdoors museum where there were examples of houses throughout Romaia's history. We then took a boat trip on a lake in the biggest park in Romania - also bizarrely home to the Hard Rock cafe!
The evening was eventful - after an interesting yet delicious dinner at a Lebanese restaurant, where we all had something out of the ordinary, we visited Revolution Square. This was home to the revolution in 1989, followed by the execution of Ceauşescu. It was fascinating to discover Romania's history first-hand - the director of the Ruth School told us how life was like under Communism and seeing the bullet holes in the buildings in the square brought the history to life.
We are all off to bed now (well the older members are) another busy day tomorrow with 2 holiday clubs to run, then off to the mountains on Friday!