Beginning My Summer

Oh my goodness...time has flown by.  It seems like just yesterday that I was just trying to make the decision to go to Romania.  Now I leave in less than a week!  I am super excited to spend my summer there but to be honest, I am completely terrified.  I live with constant butterflies in my stomach (which by the way, is not a pleasant experience).  I keep praying that this experience will change my life but right now I am questioning why I am even going!  Why am I choosing to live in a foreign country for three months?!? I don't even know!  I just know this is what God wants me to do this summer.

For all y'all who have no idea what I am talking about, let me fill you in.  I am going on an internship to Romania this summer.  I will be spending three months working in an orphanage and children's hospital in the city of  Iași (pronounced yawsh).  Most of the children have mental and physical disabilities...nobody wants to adopt them!  A group of BYU girls, me included, are going to hopefully give them the love and attention they don't get.  Working with these children and the workers terrifies me.  First, I have no experience with children with disabilities.  Second, I do NOT speak their language.  Yes, I did take a Romanian class this past semester that was suppose to teach me basic survival skills but I am pretty sure I won't understand anything besides buna ziua (this is how you say hi)!  It's going to be an interesting summer....

I wanted to create this blog to keep y'all informed about my adventures in 

Iași because it will be an adventure.   There will be highs and lows, funny stories, and days where I just want to come home.  I am posting it all on here so prepare yourself!  I am grateful for all of you and your support.  Thank you for your prayers in my behalf but please pray for the children of Romania.  They need your prayers more than I do.  I love all of you and I am so grateful for this opportunity. I just hope that I will be able to give what ever I can to these children.  I already love them and I haven't even met them yet!  La revedere!