It is finally cooler – in fact it was
actually quite cool outside this evening but it has been a very warm and sticky
day. We have had a good day – we took Flori out (she
has dialysis 3 times a week, is on medical pension so she cannot work and to be
honest her life expectancy is short) and that was quite fun. We aimed to go to
an apparently very beautiful lake near Baile Felix –
Alex gave us directions but after driving through the village twice we could
not find it so he directed us again and again by phone …. We ended up having
lunch in a very nice hotel which had ornamental fish in 3 tanks and we spent ages looking at
the fish. In actual fact by the time we had had lunch we never found the lake!
On the way back we visited a friend of
Flori’s who makes hand-made cards – I bought some
from her with a view to seeing if we can sell them to raise funds – we will see
how it goes. Then we went to visit Maria, Marinella
and the others as it is Maria’s birthday and we had a
card for her – that took a little while. The most important thing was that Flori enjoyed it and reckoned it has been a great day.
For me the hardest time was the 3
hours with Alex doing the reports on the sponsored pensioners and high school
children – in those 3 hours we must have done close on 50 reports, by which
time I was exhausted and so hot as the laptop was really hot on my lap. And
while Alex and I were working away, Phil read his book and then slept. After
that we went back to the pensioners home and had supper with the girls – it was
a delicious eye soup and mixed vegetable salad – I must ask for the recipe for
both of those.
These are proving to be precious
times and I feel we are gradually earning the trust of the other girls. It is a
privilege to be here.