I am officially back from Honduras. I had a wonderful time and experienced many amazing things. Please stay tuned for a new blog series. I will be posting a blog post about Honduras every Tuesday, starting next week. When I had many hours to spend in various airports yesterday, I planned out an 8 part series. So, 8 weeks of blog posts. Get excited!
Anyway, onto the meaning behind today's post. I received a first letter from Domenik. It took 4 months for this letter to get to me, which is the longest I've had to wait for an Albanian letter. I figured out by reading this particular letter, that another one had been sent previously and I never received it. I hope it makes it way to me someday!
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Dear Kayla,
I received your letter, your gift, and the card. When we saw your photo, I was with my mother, and when she saw it she said, "She has an angelic face and smile." (Heart melting already!). We loved them and I will send you some of my photos along with my mother. As I told you in my first letter, I have my mother, my father, my sister, and my grandparents. My mother does not work because she takes care of my little sister. My father helps my grandparents at the store, because we have a small grocery store. My father is 31 years old and my mother is 23 (She had Domenik when she was 17 years old). I am 6 years old and I will get in the 1st grade. My sister is 1 year old. My mother is writing the letter because I am little. We are all happy to get to know you so we would love to get to know you more. I was born in Greece and we lived there for three years and my mother knows Greek. I hope that you will write to me again so our friendship will be long.
Domenik
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Welcome home! I can't wait to hear about you meeting Celeste.
ReplyDeleteI hope Dominik's first letter wings it way to you. What a sweet mama he has.
His mama seems great. I really admire her for being such a great mother to Domenik. She's a year younger than me and already has a 6 year old. I don't have any kids, so it really puts things into perspective for me.
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ReplyDeleteYou might try contacting World Vision about Dominik's first letter. When I put in an inquiry for my Himalayan girl back in April, they e-mailed me a scanned copy of her first letter and apologized that I hadn't received it. Now, I don't know if that was because it hadn't been sent yet so they just scanned it in so they could e-mail it to me ASAP, or if World Vision scans in every letter, but you might ask!
World Vision does not scan in every letter, so there is most likely no record of it. But, this also happened with Xhuliano's letters. I received a few letters before I received his official "first letter."
DeleteAww! What a sweet letter!! I can tell Dominik's family love you!! And how neat to learn that his family has a grocery store and that he was born in Greece.
ReplyDeleteI agree! It's almost like I got a background story on him and his family.
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