Wow, Valentine's Day and February is already half over! Early this month I was greeted with the rosey sunrise you see in the first picture. Of course I took it to be an early sign of Spring. Most of the snow is gone now and the streets are brown instead of white. You may wonder how I've been keeping myself busy on long winter nights. Ta-da, admire my 500 piece tiger puzzle. Other activity has been getting ready for St Valentine's Day, which can be said in Romanian as "Ziua Indragostitilor" The kids at the Community Center have been busy cutting out paper hearts and painting the windows with messages of love. One budding artist Andre painted a Spring scene of two love birds. Nice job! And on February 14th we had a birthday to celebrate for Valnetina. She's the girl at table with the red hair. And the girl in the chair being lifted up seven times because that's how old she is. This week we also had the blessing of the Community Center building by our local priest "Parinti Ion" (Father John). Donis our paznic (caretaker) is preparing some dried basil for the ceremony. Meanwhile Sergiu is busy in the kitchen getting some placinta made. These placinta are stuffed with either cartofi (potatoes) or varza (cabbage). The priest has many prayers to say and then he blesses all the rooms inside, and all the building outside. Of course afterword, we have to have a "masa" , a meal to celebrate. And the kids will put on a special show for our guests. And they get to eat too. Love, love, love, that's what its all about. These are some valentines I got from the kids.
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