Another birthday and we got power!

It was Oxana's birthday this week at the new house, she is now 18 years old. We only have students over 18, that's why she arrived at the beginning of September, while the others were here at the end of July. Her older  sister Vika is in the striped shirt (it was her birthday earlier this month). They are the only siblings in the program this year.

You can see a few changes, we bought more stuff last week for the house, it takes a lot of stuff to fill a house! The coffee table, (the clock was ours before Garry bought a cow one last spring) and we also bought 6 quilts and six more blankets for the girls beds, winter is coming.

We are down a girl, as Luba decided to go live with her grandmother, her brother came last week to help her carry her stuff (three grocery bags).She will be twenty in a few days, and has a mother and several siblings that have returned home after the orphanage, it seems. We saw them as they were going out of the village on our way home from church that Sunday, and hugged her before she left. Garry gave her his business card in case she changes her mind, before we fill her spot.  I miss her smiling in English class, she had studied it before, and knew all the numbers already! She called Maria already and said she had to go live with a cousin instead so it may not be working out. .

We did find another boy for the first year class after the other one left after only two days before classes started. He is Anton and we picked him up in Dnepro Sunday afternoon at the bus station, he is from Victor's village Misshorin Rog and was recommended by the team for Kirvoy Rog. He seems to be fitting in nicely after only two days. Yesterday afternoon he was helping with digging the trench for the electric cable.

Victor is more than the Hope for Each director
He trained as an electrician

Girl power= Karina helped dig too

That's right, there is electricity working at the new barn today! They got it going just after 6 pm Monday. The transformer had to warm up over the weekend.

We hope to move the classroom over there shortly and hire the company that built the framework for the parlor to assemble the milk parlor and get the milk cows over there in the next month or so.

Students hard at work

Victor explaining how it works to Nikolai

.Now we just need that container of stuff sent from BC to get out of Kiev in the next couple weeks and here in the village...