Game Ideas Anyone??

So I'm trying to prepare myself for my upcoming trip to Ukraine. No, I'm not making strides in learning the language. (I've listened to the 1st CD about five times and still haven't mastered, "Excuse me, do you speak English?". I can only say, "nett" and "da".) Nor am I trying to build up my resistance to freezing temperatures by running around in shorts and flip-flops. Besides, it may or may not be cold when I travel and since I already have such a great aversion to cold, I doubt I could increase my tolerance anyway.
No, I am collecting GAMES to play at the orphanage while we are there. I'm reading these blogs and it sounds like for the 10 day waiting period you are the entertainment for not only your child but often times his whole class. So I am trying to re-learn games that we can play that do not require the participants to speak the same language. So far I have:
Spaz (A game played with U-no cards which involves hand signals when two of the same color cards are laid in row.)
Spoons (Involves a deck of cards and collecting four of a kind then grabbing a spoon)
and I'm going to try to re-learn Hot Dice (also known as Farkle or Greedy). It's a dice game with many different names but involves rolling dice.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated....
On a positive note, I got all my documents back from the appostille office on Friday. Can you believe it?? I'm still waiting on my document from Louisiana but besides that I'm ready to forward everything for translation.
A WORD TO THE WISE
Make all your copies BEFORE you take you documents to the appostille office! The appostille is physically attached to EVERY document and very hard to copy around and impossible through a feeder type copier. This way when the documents come back, you can just copy the appostille paper and not try to maneuver around the rivet that attaches the appostille to the document. (Wish I had figured this out before I took my documents in!)
On a not so positive note, I ran into a lady today that just brought her son home a few months ago. It took her THREE years to get all the paper work completed. THREE YEARS!!! He was 11 when they hosted and 14 when they adopted. I tried to console myself that this would not be my situation as she explained that he was not a legal orphan when they met him and he had to actually go to court and ask to be classified as an orphan. Then wait a year before he was eligible for adoption. Then the government decided they would only allow so many adoptions a year and they missed the cut off and had to wait another year to go over and get him. What a nightmare. My Alex is a legal orphan as confirmed by the director, the adoption agency and even Snezhana told me as much so I don't have that hurdle (knock on wood) but who knows what the government will do? This is yet another issue for my Scarlett O'Hara view of life,"I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."