Today all the hosting families went to a park in Roswell for a ‘welcome’ get together. Oksana was SO happy to see her friends. She kept ‘checking in’ with us, but she got to spend a lot of time with the other kids, and could finally talk freely and in her own language.

Her best friend, whose name I forget/can’t pronounce anyway =/ and her decided to taste all the kinds of potato chips. Her friend would go up to the food table, grab a bag and then come back to their seats. They would eat several and then the friend would go put the bag back and bring back another.

She brought back one bag of cheese puffs. But they were the super hot spicy kind. All of a sudden I hear “MOOOOMMYYYY!” and I turn back to Oksana and she is freaking out and waving her hand in front of her mouth. I grabbed her juice she had left with me and gave it to her. She drank it, made another face and just looked at her friend. The friend kept eating the puffs no problem. So Oksana grabbed another, and took a bite, then yelped like a hit dog again and drank more juice. Then she gave her friend a dirty look.

Hilarious.

Oksana’s parting gift from the picnic was a bag of Freetos.

~Kim

Oksana and her friend