Olympics!!!!! and the kids' olympics too.

I am soooo stoked about the Olympics. I've been a fan since I was 7 and I saw my very first Opening Ceremony.

However, I think a small part of me died today, because I don't know what: karma, fate,...but I was working on certificates and ribbons for the kids in my village, and I didn't finish all of them last night, so only after 5 MINUTES of watching the Ceremony my electricity died!! FOR 1 HOUR!, just long enough to miss all the cool stuff =(
Alas, I did finish all my ribbons and certificates in time to meet up with my kids this evening.

In Honor of the Olympics, because I am a die hard fan (I don't know how this happened), I decided to organize a week of sports for the kids. Monday-Friday we had: Handbal, Fotbal, Golf (this did not go well, and I don't recommend unless you a.) prepare all the holes first, and have enough balls for alllll the kids, each and every one, which leads to b.) limit the amount of kids to something you can handle and help cause I had 30-40 and it was too much, some left and I was releaved). On Thursday, we were going to race in the canal (but we heard that cows poop in it and we can get skin diseases) or do tug-a-war or volleyball near the water, but we ended up doing nothing Thursday due to what happened Wednesday evening (we were going to play: look for Cynthia's missing things, but the boys fled to Galati with what wasn't found yet), and Friday we had running races: short, long and relays.
I gave the winners cute ribbons I spent all night making (I didn't have enough stuff for all (I had no financial help, so doing all this took a lot of planning and creativity), so I will try to fix that this weekend because I know some kids are sad they didn't win anything =(, and I made a certificate (that my neighbors and I colored with colored pencils cause we have no colored ink) for all the organizers of the races (the heads of each sport), and for the referees I made mini picture frames with masking tape, popsicles sticks, and colored paper, and for the water girls committtee I put seashells I got from the seashores of Constanta on their certificate with calking gel =). It was a LOT of work, but that's how much I love the Olympics.

One of my life goals: in case one of you can hook me up in the future: to help organize the Olympic games. Unfortunately, this time around, they already have enough little Chinese girls helping out =) And they are beautiful!
It's funny how the two things I'm self concious about, is amazing in Romania: the girls have long legs and gorgeous eyes of all sorts of colors: yellow, blue, orange, gold, green, etc...

No pictures =( TBPSD => To Be Posted Some Day

This is the way Aiy waash My contacts, in, Ro-ma-nia!

So.....that was a song above by the way, using the beat to "the wheels on the bus"
I had been to many farmacies, and magazines, to find contact solutions to make my 1 year of supply reach a little longer. I figured it was easier than ordering more, and my daily contacts would work 2 days just fine. However, it was ridiculous to find, just like a helmet.

So: here is what I used in America.

Here is what I got recommended by a doctor in Romania, he said that this works just as well and it would be a lot easier and cheaper to use and find. It's saline solution, it doesn't remove the enzymes, but it would work for a short period.

AND HERE! is what I got when I went into a farmacie and the lady told me that little pack of 5 vials of 10mL each was 28 RONs!! (about 12 dollars), and I asked for something cheaper.

It was 2 RON per a sack, and it has 250mL, but I need a needle to draw the liquid out of these saline packs.

Hahahhaha!!!! It seems to be working for my contacts, they stay moist and they are cleaner after I give them a good rub.

I actually know how to draw fluids with a needle from a packet, I learned it from POLY (Cal Poly) from my horse classes, cause we had to vaccinate the horses.

Anyway....I had to share!