Vacya's class and the caregivers

Some people have been asking about Vacya's orphanage and the kids in his class. I can give you some information, but can't be too specific as far as giving names of the children or the orphanage over the internet. There are somewhere close to 200 children in his orphanage between the ages of about 5 and 16 or 17. It is actually referred to as an internat, or school, rather than an orphanage. Younger children live in separate orphanages that are not schools. Once the kids are about 16 or 17, or when they finish "9th class", they must leave the orphanage. Vacya is in the 3rd class with 8 other kids. These kids live together in the same room and go to school together in the same class. I was going to put a picture of his class on here, but I just realized that I don't have a place to put the SD card to upload the picture now that Matt & Shelby's computer is not here. Bummer... we might not be able to post anymore pictures. Maybe at an internet cafe?.... we'll try to figure something out.

Anyway, moving on to the caregivers... there are 2 women that are referred to as caregivers that stay with the kids during the day and move on with the class as they progress through the levels, so the same caregivers would be with any given group of kids from 1st class all the way through 9th class. They also have a teacher who works with them each weekday morning for school. Vacya's caregivers gave Matt & Shelby (well, mostly Shelby) a really hard time when they were adopting their 2 boys, so we weren't sure what to expect when we started going out there everyday. We didn't have any issues the whole time Matt & Shelby were still here, but the last couple of days, since Matt & Shelby have left to go back to the States, the caregivers have been a little more difficult. If we need to, we can have our facilitator talk to the caregivers or to the orphanage director to make sure we are allowed to see Vacya everyday like we are supposed to be able to. Hopefully we won't have any major issues though.