Laundry Day

This is our Laundry Room; reminds me of a Barbie Townhouse

We are in the tedious portion of the adoption process, pretty much the same thing goes on every day. We visit Maxim in the morning, return to the flat for lunch, walk to the Internet cafe and/or market, walk back home, eat dinner, study Bible, chat with Igor and go to bed.

It is surprising that we do not have much free time. Today we did not visit Maxim. We decided to not visit him so we could do our laundry. (Wow what a job doing it all by hand. I am afraid it will not get dry by tonight). Our flat is now decorated with wet clothes on every radiator. We do have a neat retractable gadget that stretches five drying lines over the tub. Very handy.

Last night we watched a French movie on TV (first TV we've really spent any time with since we got here) that was dubbed in Russian (or Ukrainian). It was a comedy about two guys who both wanted to marry Julius Caesar's daughter and fought for her by both going to the Olympics. Very silly and easy to follow because of the plot. We only actually understood a few words. It was just good to relax and laugh together. American movies are usually dubbed in Ukrainian with one man speaking the part of every male character and one woman speaking for every female character. Very little emotion is apparent in the dubbing voices. Last night's movie was a national premier so they went all out and had a separate man dubbing each male character's voice; same for female parts.

Tomorrow, we'll go back to our usual routine of visits with Maxim.

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