Roger L. Russell Family: April 2008

Easter picture

Easter in Romania is celebrated according to the Orthodox calendar. It came on April 27th, 5 weeks after non-Orthodox countries celebrated. After church we had lunch with some of our colleagues at Floyd and Freda's home. We enjoyed being with them and eating all the yummy food. I took the opportunity to make sure we had a new picture of us taken.

BCA Junior/Senior Prom April 26, 2008

Another last for Kyle, attending prom as a senior.

This year's theme was A Whole New World. Prom was held at the Persia Restaurant. They ate Middle Eastern cuisine.

Since it is hard to find a florist here to make corsages I made the corsage for Kyle's date and his boutonnière. Kyle's date wore a black and white dress but her favorite color is orange.

Kyle and his date Alyssa. She is a junior at BCA.

The young men and women at the prom.

During the evening the seniors read their wills. Then a Junior read to them their futures. Here is Matews reading Kyle's future.

Kyle, Kyle, and Matews posing.

The Class of 2008 with Tony and Chrissy Barbusca, chaperones for the event!

Matews (MK from Brazil) and Kyle wishing they could try out the water pipe.

After prom some of the students went to Tineretului Park to walk around and also ride bumper cars. Here is Kyle, Rachael, Alyssa, and Kyle. They later went to midnight mass at an Orthodox Church since it was Orthodox Easter. They finished the night at McDonalds.

Our Cristea boys

Friday, April 25th Roger and I spent the evening with Dan, Adina, Alex, and Andrei Cristea and Dan's father who was visiting. Alex is our 3 year old godson. Since both of our families had plans for Easter we celebrated with them that evening.

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Andrei is 15 months old now. He is growing up and does not look like a little baby anymore. Here is he with his Mom, Adina.

For Easter along with some candy we gave them matching shirts and books. The boys sat still a few moments for me to get a fews pictures of them. Of course Alex decided for one picture he needed to make a face.

BCA's Annual Elementary Music Program and Talent Show

During the past few years Bucharest Christian Academy has held an elementary music program and talent show in the springtime. We get to see first hand the talent of the students at BCA through singing, playing musical instruments, and skits.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders sang and played the handbells.

The 4th, 5th, and 6th graders played the recorders.

Our colleagues, the Carnes' son, Samuel (2nd from the left) playing the recorder.

Our colleagues, the Brown's daughter, Katelyn is in the middle playing the recorder.

Talent Show

Kyle and Jonathan were the emcees at the talent show.

Kyle talking while a skit was being set up.

The high school choir singing during the talent show.

In Cap and Gown

Time is fast approaching to see Kyle and his classmates receive their high school diplomas. Recently Mrs. Barbusca, their English teacher and the yearbook advisor, took Kyle and of his classmates (one was missing) out to have pictures taken in caps and gowns. Here are just a few of the many taken. They went into a historical part of Bucharest to have pictures taken. Some were taken in the inner courtyard of a monastery. You will be seeing the funny side of Kyle in many of these pictures.

Kyle freshening up. Here he is with classmates, Christina (on the left) and Lauren.

It's you!

Hey there!

Mrs. Barbusca taking Kyle's picture. The second picture is not good of Kyle but I wanted to point out the carvings behind Kyle. This was at the monastery.