a week away
A week now. Next week, this time we will be in China, climbing the Wall, seeing the Square, laughing nervously. I imagine this group we will be with -- 20 families -- all happy to be traveling, happy to be touring, but everything has an edge, the edge of waiting to hold that baby, for us, our girl. I did not think we would do this big group travel, but I am interested in what it will be like. The making of 20 new kinds of families. As if we are all going into the labor room, the delivery room at the same time -- group pushing, group groaning. How strange. I did not labor in a labor room, but I imagine a room in pain, noisy and anxious, bad tempers, comradarie. Will this be the same? Be on time, they tell us. Remember the group. Umm, very Asian? A simulation?
Though a yahoo group for the orphanage that ZhiKuang comes from, I found out that two babies will be adopted around the same time that Julia is. Neither from our agency, but Nanchang is not a place Westerners travels to and there are only a few hotels. We will find eachother. One family was told they would meet their child on Sunday, the 27th, the other on the 28th like us. I find it hard to believe that the officials that travel with the kids will make two trips a day apart. That might mean we might get Julia a day early, or the first family might get their child a day late. Neither would be surprising. Such changes happen all the time. And we need to be flexible on this trip, that is another thing we are told.
Everything is guilded and planned but plans could change at any moment and we will need to adapt.
posted by Suz @ 5:26 PM
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