Zdravei!!

Well, I have had an adventurous last three days or so! I decided to adopt a kitten because she looked as if she was going to die and she didn't even know how to eat on her own. She is gray and white and I named her жалая! That means wish in Bulgarian!! So here is what happened! The kids were all going on a vacation for ten days and they where just going to leave her in a box. So I had to take her that day obviously and I was calling around to see where and if their was a vet in DB and their was! So after work a colleague of mine walked me a mile to the vet and when I got their the lady had literally just fallen and broken her arm! She was in agony and still gave the cat its vaccination and tried really hard to help me understand in Bulgarian what the H I was suppose to do with this cat!! Of course, I kept her there longer than I should have because I kept double checking with her because like all new mother's I was terrified!! =) I also believe the lady was talking to the local hospital to see when she could get her arm checked out!! CRAZY RIGHT!! Any who, I then walked another mile back to the orphanage and had the kids hold the cat until I could buy a toilet and food for the kitten! She is literally 4 weeks old! So after I convinced a women in a "store" to let me buy the rubber container she was using to hold her soil in to sell, I now had the cat's toilet. I then went and found cat food! I then looked in the street for жалая kitty litter which, I then had to De-ant before I took it inside!! I also bought a big plastic spoon with holes so I could clean the litter box!! When I got жалая home she didn't move all night! Then I woke up to her having diarrhea in her box and the smell could have cleared the room.....BLAH! She doesn't know how to eat or drink on her own! So then I gave her a Medicine bath with the medicine from the vet because she had bugs crawling everywhere! She really hated that! Then after two days of still bathing her in the medicine I decided to act like a monkey mother and sit there with a bowl of water and I started picking the bugs out one by one and drowning them!! It took a few hours but I was determined!! My baby looked miserable!! So Now everyday I put dry kitten food milk and warm water in a bowl and mush it up with my hands and then put it in a syringe and force her to eat!! I of course freaked out that she wasn't eating and I fed her too much because later that night she puked it all back up....YUMMY! I called Jill and my grandma Lee on skype and told then I needed advice because at this point my kitty was ready to die! She couldn't even walk on her own anymore she was so weak and scared!! I finally was told my Jill and my grandma who talked to a vet in Nebraska that I needed to feed her a lot of sugar with water to get her blood sugar up and to get her appetite going! I did and I really thought she was going to die the way she looked ....ahhhh I can't get her face out of my head!! So after two days of every two hours of force feeding today is the first day I have heard her meow and she was walking around and following me everywhere! My baby is going to live!! She now tries to eat when I give her the syringe and she still doesn't know know how to drink water! She also has about five different forts I have made for her around the apt!! She is really living now!! She is now bug free and walking around!! She is starting to have a real personality!

On another note back to the chicken incident I was cleaning the kitchen the other day and opened the oven where the chicken was and out came millions of ants!! At this point I was fed up with feeling and seeing tiny bugs crawling everywhere!! So I lost my mind for a sec and with a outburst of laughter I said "IT'S ON!!" I shut the door to the oven and turned the heat on high!! I waited for the smart ants to make their way out and when they did I killed them one at a time ahhahahahahahaha!! Again this took a good two hours seeing as I had lost my mind and was talking to myself whenever I killed each one!! Saying things like you can't run from me....how are your brothers and sisters are they burning alive .......WOW!!! These are the things that I do in my spare time!! Then later that day I was at work and some lady I work with walks over and asks me to translate this pamphlet that's only in English to her in Bulgarian!! OK... I said!! I Will try when I read it I see the word pregnancy and told her in Bulgarian oh I am on these kinds to "birth control" they all stopped looked at me and laughed and said why are you on these pills? With a confused looked I kept reading and come to find out it was medicine she wanted to take for menopause hahahahaha!!! opps! And in Bulgarian I translated when she was suppose to take the pills, what where the symptoms she should look out for, and when and if she needed to call a doctor and so on.....THIS IS MY LIFE!!

On a more serious note I was talking with a child in the orphanage who is leaving soon because he will turn 18 and when I asked where he was gong to go he said he was going to stay with a friend and I said oh that's great news! Later that night he walks in the room with a cell phone and tells me that his friend wants to talk to me because he can speak English! I said ok and we talked for a while and I had a very strange vibe from this man!! After I got off the phone I asked the child how long he knew him and where he met him. The child said he knew him from the Internet, he was 37, and that he's only known him for 4 months!!! RED FLAG!!!!! I looked up the word for be careful in Bulgarian and by the time I found it he was on the phone with this guy again!! I waited as long as I could and then had to leave because the orphanage was looking up for the night. So I pointed at the word and said because you have only known him for 4 months off the Internet!! He told the guy on the phone what I had said and all I know is that guy was really pissed and defensive because the child kept saying relax relax she just doesn't understand!! I talked to the PC about it and they gave me some advice on some anti-trafficking techniques and resources for the child so he knows he has other options.....It is official that my work starts NOW!!! I love you all and I hope all is well!!

Keeping it Real

Von