Mocrea Day and my friend Nina

It was the last visit of my trip to Mocrea and today we were a team of 5 visiting armed with drinks, biscuits and coffee sachets.  We split the team with 2 of us doing makeup for the ladies with the other 3 organising painting, all of which was a great success.  Bogdan and I visited the locked wards with staff.  The sessions finished with singing and prayer.

We then delivered Widows Mite food parcels to the remote village of Dude.  We currently only have 2 people on the programme in this village - Lena  and George known as Ghita.  Lena is aged 85 and is now looking frail.  She broke her leg two years ago and in many ways has not recovered from it.  Whilst she is mobile again she lives in pain from her rheumatism and has heart problems.  Lena has lived a very hard life on her own for many years having lost her husband and only child at a young age.  Bogdan, myself and Ceri, an American missionary all helped to clean Ghita's home - conditions were very bad.  Since his wife died many years ago he has been unable to cope with caring for himself and unless Bogdan goes in regularly to do essential cleaning and to change his bed and clothes his situation can quickly deteriorate.  Bogdan found mice in the food cupboard and whilst cleaning we found dropping everywhere.  Ghita also has a huge hernia but doctors say there would be too much of a risk to correct it.  During the next visit he needs his beard and hair cut.

Once back in Arad I visited my good friend, Nina who lives on the end of San Nicolau Mic Village.  It was good to just sit down and catch on our family life and reminisce on the time we worked together in the SNM School.  Nina was the full time teacher and I came in to teach English and Cooking.  We had many hard but good times together.  We were such good friends and we flew her over to Wales for our wedding in 2007.