On Saturday and Sundays our facilitators have the day off so we are on our own. This weekend Monday is a holiday so we actually have three days to test our abilities. Luckily the baby house (orphanage for children 6 and under) allows us to visit on our normal schedule even on the weekends. So from 10-12 and 2-4 we are able to visit with our son. We quickly found that about an hour of one on one attention is about all he really wants and after that he is ready to go back to his group.
Saturday was our first solo day. We succeeded in walking to the orphanage (about a miles walk) and back - twice! The first time we had a bit of difficulty getting through the orphanage gate but eventually we figured it out. And to really strut ourselves we walked down the street (just a block) to our local market and bought some groceries.
We were hightly unsuccessful in trying to get our little compact washing machine to start. But more disappointly we walked about 3 miles looking for the internet cafe. I kept asking everybody for directions and "D" kept wanting to pretend like he did not know me! hum.... this is really no different than when we are lost in the states!!!!
So finally we called our life line (aka Vanya) and he had the social worker and her son stop by to start the washing machine. They also drove us to the internet cafe which surprisingly was right in front of where we had walked to -- we were just a few building off! But there was clearly no international sign awaiting us that we were in the right spot.
They also stopped back by later in the day and hooked us up with a dialup internet card. Now all is good :-)
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Those washer/dryers can be tricky! The one we had worked, but it would only go partway through the cycle and then just sit there. I figured out that it wasn't draining completely and once I'd pulled the drain tube out a bit, it worked fine! Glad to know you have laundry service now. :)
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