Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
God bless you!

My mum very sick

My mum was admitted to the cardiology, she is very sick, her heart beats are not regular, sometimes too fast other times too slow.

Last visit in Mina 1 Mai for 2008

I am posting a few photos of the last visit, and here you can see how is the work now, at the end of 2008. You can see that the tape between the plasterboards is now pulling off just because it is cold there, not warm enought to dry. They hope to have better days as well, but till than they just stopped the work for as little while, due to the weather conditions.

A nice surprise

Today, a stranger arrived to us, saying that he has a gift for us. He has given us a big box wrapped in red. We signed for it and he left. Did not knew what it was, from where it was, anything about it. As we opened it we saw Romanian cholcolates, wafers, sweets, wine, biscuits...in a nice basket.
The box was made in Arad, and delivered to us by a company from Arad.
But I don't know anyone from Arad!

Paying more attention to it, discovered that the box was a gift to us from John and Nona from UK, who are wishing us Merry Christmas.
Well, I don't know how they made it, but it was very nice and it was a great surprise for us!
So Merry Christmas to you John and Nona, and God bless you! Thank you very much for it!

Photos of Christmas gift distribution

Before leaving homeBefore starting the distribution

Their Christmas treeAnd giving out the NNRT gifts

Sorting the cards by each wardReceiving the Christmas cards A friend of us, who is very happy and wishing you Merry Christmas!

NNRT Christmas gifts distributed

Yesterday we distributed all the 150 bags of Christmas gifts for the patients and also we have given the Christmas cards. They were very happy! Photos above.

Christmas gift bags made!

We have purchased from the Metro, all the sweets for the Christmas gift bags, which we will give out to patients. Empty plastic bags we got in the flat. Each bag contains a cocoa cream filled croissant, a 100g chocolate bar, one pack of biscuits, 0.50 l flavoured juice, 2 small Mars bars, one orange. In addition we will give each patients the Christmas card which arrived from Wales. And each bag contains...

Karina was an enormous help for us. She helped at the shopping, but especially at making the bags. We were more than pleased...And towards the end of it...

Various food bougth for the hospital

It is like a tradition now, that a few weeks before Christmas the hospital gets some food and also the patients get their goodie bag. This year is no different. I can tell you that yesterday I went to the Metro Cash and Carry and purchased a lot of food for the hospital. There was Marioara's husband who helped. The charity bought for the hospital: sugar, flour, corn flour, dry beans, pasta, tin fish, tin liver pate, tin tomatoes, cocoa, milk powder, cheese, processed cheese, cooking oil and also shampoo for patients.
We delivered these to the hospital storage, and they were very thankful.
Next week I plan to bring a goodie bag for each patient with sweets and also to deliver them their Christmas cards.

Condolances and congratulations...

As lady Helen's husband died, presented the whole NNRT team's condolances. Garofita will pass it this evening and myself when I meet her next time.

Also congratulations for Garofita's husband and son who both are named Nicolae and now is the St. Nicholas day (Sf. Nicolae) in Romania.

Christmas cards arrived!

The Christmas cards made by the Wesley Youth Club Caerphilly from Wales have arrived today courtesy David Wilkes and John Hexter. These are beautiful cards, and the patients will love them!

For those who are interested

From the 1st of December 2008 EU citizens who travel by plane to Romania are allowed to take back with them gifts up to the value of 430 Euros per person wihout any tax fee. Here we can mention all coffee, tea, cigarettes, alcohol, vine, parfumes and other things in the personal luggage.
I know certain people would be interested in this, so that may be a good news for them.

Parliamentary elections

The result of the Romanian Parliamentary elections, held on Sunday 30 November is:
1. Alliance of Social Decmocratic Party + Conservative Party aprox. 33%
2. Democratic Liberal Party aprox. 32.5 %
3. National Liberal Party aprox. 18.5%
4. Hungarians Democratic Alliance aprox. 6.2%
and that's about it.