"One does not know, until one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one"

Friday March 18 2011
Today was awesome. In the morning, Audriana gave a lesson about institutionalized care in Moldova and the education system here in general. The things that stood out to me the most are:

• children are with the exact same group of 25 kids from grades 1-12
• children with any type of disability are sent off to "special schools" in remote locations
• One of the children in our program at the internat had a family that was going to adopt him. They took this child for a day and then left them at the Internat and never came back. 

After lunch, we went to a really cool ministry. It is a home to survivors of sex trafficking and their children. What an amazing place! It is a very nice, big, homey place. And, based on the conversation with their communications assistant, they are extremely loving, serious, and proffesional about what they do. I'm going to pray about volunteering there on weekends. At night, I just ate dinner and crashed.