Bogdan

This little guy and I became friends at the camp I was at in Russia in July 2009. We couldn’t understand each other, but we had tons of fun. He loved to run around and play tag, or show me the latest bug he had just caught. The last couple days of camp, his parents had gotten him a little wooden model of a deer. All the pieces had been cut out, but it needed to be put together. We spent a while trying to do that, but didn’t get very far. At the end, when I had to leave, he gave it to me and asked me to finish it. Unfortunately, it didn’t survive the trip, so I never was able to do so.

Jeff went over to the camp this year, and I told him that if he saw Bogdan (pronounced “bug-don”) at camp, to say hi for me. When I got back from Albuquerque yesterday, I went into my office and Jeff had left a drawing that Bugdon had done for me. I’m not gonna lie–I got a little misty-eyed