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Overdue Update and a Zoo

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Flat Etie

I have not put anything for a long time so I’m going to do my best to fill the gaps. After we saw our cousins we drove to Idaho and saw our friends and met some new friends. We stayed at an old friend’s house and it was fun. Then we went down to Texas and spent time with Mamaw. Mom worked at Samaritan’s Purse.

After Mom’s work, we went down to Grandma and Pa’s house and had Christmas and New Year with Great Grandma and Great Pa too. Then we went back to Dallas (that’s where Mamaw lives) but we are like 45 minutes from her.

Where we are staying is SO COOL 😎  WE LIVE AT THE ZOO!!!! Well, it’s like 50 feet away but still so cool, and there are cows, camels, and zebras that you can see without paying. Plus we got free passes. We might go to Montana after Texas but we are not 100%. That’s all bye 😀

   Flat Emily week 16!

Oh my goodness guys! It is literally week 16 (well more than that because I missed a few. Alright, fine! It’s been a year since we started.) 😉

I can play a little bit on the flute now! I got one for Christmas, and I absolutely love it. We are in Texas for now, well actually for about three months. At the church we go to they have a youth group so now I don’t feel too big in the kids’ church. It’s an awesome place.

My birthday is going to be so soon! February 20th! Oh, another really big thing. We live in a zoo. *pauses to let that sink in* You know with bears and stuff? Yeah we live there. It’s so fun because there are these cute “oreo” cows and they love me! And I love them too! Look real cuties! Byeeee! 😀

*Editor’s note* I apologize for the delay; it is my fault, and thank you for your continued support.  I also want to clarify that God has brought us to Texas for some church planter training. If it is the Lord’s will, we intend to head West by summer as we continue to work as missionaries, now in our own land, sharing the Gospel of Jesus. 

-Brian

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Friends, Kittens and Exodus

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June 2023 (Etie had some catching up to do!)

I’ve finished my school. It was sad leaving everybody.  Did I tell you  that  we are going back to Cluj, Romania?  It is kind of sad because we can’t go back to the USA😞 until  we leave Cluj.  I have been learning some Norwegian.  I will show you some Norwegian; øæ¤ and how to say tea and coffee thanks: te og caffe takk. I’m so excited to go back to the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bye for now!

July 2023

Hello guys and welcome back! In Romania there are a lot of interesting things; we have to take the bus everywhere because we don’t have a car, (update: we actually just got a car yesterday!) For a while we didn’t have a car and we took the bus everywhere which is actually really cool.   I like having a car because we don’t have to walk to the bus stops and stuff like that. Also, did I tell you that I am playing futbol (soccer)?  Here it is called futbol, I think that makes way more sense honestly.  My coach speaks English which is really nice, so he just mostly translates everything into English for me. We have a four story house counting the attic and the basement which is pretty cool, me and my sister have made the attic into this secret hideout which is fun. They use the basement for storing supplies to be shipped to Ukraine, so we don’t go down there.   My sister and I are sharing a room which she is irritated with lol😂.  I have also met a lot more friends than I thought at first.  I have made a  friend  from North Ireland that is here in Romania and I also have a friend that is from Romania,  actually I have a bunch from Romania which is pretty cool. See you next time bye🙋

Flat Emily week 12

This week we got to walk some really cute doggies(we really wanted to foster one, but our landlord said no) and we are going to do it again next week too!  Today I’m going to my swim lessons and after that we have dinner with some people from church then I’m going to a sleepover!!  Yesterday we went to an Exodus base to see what it was like there and there they have lots of hammocks right by the creek and some super cute little kittens.  On Monday we went to the library with some other Americans. The library has an American Corner with English books!  Some really exciting news is that I’m going to learn to play the flute!  It has been REALLY hot here so the swimming pool will feel good.  Ciao! 

 

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Cows with bells and Norwegians!

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Flat Emily:

Tomorrow we are leaving for Spain.  We are in Spain for 3 weeks then we will come back to Cluj for 4 or 5 months.  The Norwegians left yesterday, it was a little sad, but not too much.  Tomorrow we are going to fly to Italy and drive to Switzerland to visit some friends. We will stay there for 2? days then fly to Spain and see the Norwegians!  Today is one of the students birthday and they hopefully 🙂 got us something vegan yay! ciao!

Etie:

After we were in Medias we went to Cluj, which is still in Romania.  In Cluj we made lunch for the Ukrainians everyday except Sunday.  I really liked the English classes that we did for the Romanian kids.  Another fun part about Cluj was they had a ping pong table.  There were parks everywhere.  The park that I liked the best we called the alligator park, because it had a really big slide that was an alligator.  It was really fun to go down it on your jackets, to see how fast we could go.

After we were in Cluj we flew to Italy and got yummy vegan pastries and they had bread that was like pizza crust that was really good.  Then we drove to Switzerland and yes they do have  very good chocolate and cows with bells like I expected.  We saw the Swiss Alps there. When we were driving we saw lots of waterfalls.  We visited our friends in Basel that we met in Spain.  We went to an Aldi in Germany. They had lots of vegan stuff, even vegan kit kats.  Then we drove back to Italy and flew to Spain.  I am really glad we are back!  Guess what, we live right next to the Norwegian family!!!!🤩 The End.🙋

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Cactus, Pumpkin and Donuts in Romania!

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Flat Emily week 8

In a few days we are going to Cluj Romania for three weeks.  On Sunday we went to Sibiu and went to church there and also we got long donuts too!  If you ever go there make sure to get them 😀.  I have two snails as pets and thirty outside in a great little area for them.  I’m writing about raccoon dogs and I will put a pic here.  Yesterday we went to a different base that has a school for Roma kids and helps build houses for them.  Where the Roma kids live there are 150 houses and 600 people!  That is a lot of people and still more coming!  I can count to 19 in Swiss – German now!  Au revoir!

Let me tell you how we go to Romania.  First we went on a plane ride from Dublin, Ireland to Germany for a little layover, then to Austria, and then to Bucharest, Romania.  That night we went on a train ride.  It was my first train ride ever and we were in a sleeper car.  I got to sleep on the top bunk.  When we finally arrived we were supposed to get to Medias at 7:30 am, but we really got here at like 8:30. 

We are staying in a house with 19 people, so it’s kind of crowded but not really.  There are three families including us and four students.  I am really glad that we could see the Norwegians again.  It has been fun playing with them. 

Today we went to a Ukrainian school and I was the dinosaur there.  It was very fun. We played red light green light, hide and seek, and danced around.  Also when I was here I accidentally got poked by a cactus when we were playing pumpkin.  Because for pumpkin you have to close your eyes.  We are making a little home for snails outside, because we found a bunch in the backyard.  All the kids are helping.  The End! 

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