December 27, 2003
I cannot believe the things I have seen today. There are so many orphanages in Romania. It is unbelievable. We went to Caracal at a mentally challenged orphanage. These were kids who had minds of a one year old or two year old and in bodies of ten year olds. They would get happy and scared at the smallest things. One kid coulnt't even eat a mandarin, probably because it was soft and he was scared of it. Another kid that seemed to have a stronger joyous mind, would kiss your hand and then do the motion of the catholic cross. All the kids wanted me to lift them up because they enjoyed it so much.
They also had a maze for the kids. I couldn't believe it because they use mazes for rats. Yet there was one kid that was confused when he got to the part in the maze where he had to chose left or right. He seemed to naturally go left and was very confused. For him it looked like two choices became three, which is the way he came.
Another case was a girl who was not a midget, but had the body of a 4 year old yet was 18 years old! Another kid looked like a lizard almost and was very afraid when someone approached her. There was also a blind kid who just repeated what was said to him. He kept saying "Ciocolata, Napolitana, Cheama-l pe Florin" (translation = Chocolate, Napolitans, call Florin).
The scariest case was seeing the kids with the big heads. I thought it was a joke when I heard that but when I entered the room and saw someone who had a head bigger than a watermelon, I was shocked. I was just amazed. The kid was skin and bones and the head was so big. These kids live to be 5 years old only. Their heads keep growing because the fluids build up. May God have mercy on them. The kids also rocked their heads back and forth because thats all they could do. Once in a while they had to be turned over. There are 9 cases of this in Oltenia. That is so many. It is so horrible, they are like monsters. May Romanians stop going around and sleeping with each other and giving their kids away to orphanages. They are causing horror.
They also had a maze for the kids. I couldn't believe it because they use mazes for rats. Yet there was one kid that was confused when he got to the part in the maze where he had to chose left or right. He seemed to naturally go left and was very confused. For him it looked like two choices became three, which is the way he came.
Another case was a girl who was not a midget, but had the body of a 4 year old yet was 18 years old! Another kid looked like a lizard almost and was very afraid when someone approached her. There was also a blind kid who just repeated what was said to him. He kept saying "Ciocolata, Napolitana, Cheama-l pe Florin" (translation = Chocolate, Napolitans, call Florin).
The scariest case was seeing the kids with the big heads. I thought it was a joke when I heard that but when I entered the room and saw someone who had a head bigger than a watermelon, I was shocked. I was just amazed. The kid was skin and bones and the head was so big. These kids live to be 5 years old only. Their heads keep growing because the fluids build up. May God have mercy on them. The kids also rocked their heads back and forth because thats all they could do. Once in a while they had to be turned over. There are 9 cases of this in Oltenia. That is so many. It is so horrible, they are like monsters. May Romanians stop going around and sleeping with each other and giving their kids away to orphanages. They are causing horror.
posted by Mic at
3:02 AM
3 Comments:
Mic, it's so sad to read of all these kids that you saw. I bet those images are still ingrained in your memory. You were filled with compassion, I can tell, but you didn't really mean it when you said that they should be taken out of their misery, did you?
Did you guys get to do things like play games with them? I bet your visit made their day!
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sarah braica, at 9:29 PM, November 14, 2005
Hi Sarah,
I ommitted that line out so that it is no longer in the blog because I do not believe that. I wrote it at the time out of shock.
The kids enjoyed us visiting them sooo much! My "responsibility" was to play with the kids and throw them in the air until they got sick! =) FYI, they didn't get sick of it!
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Mic, at 12:52 AM, November 16, 2005
mic... when's the next journal entry gonna go up?
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sarah braica, at 2:11 PM, November 30, 2005
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