Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Uncle Sam sent us another gift yesterday, something we weren’t expecting. Little m’s immigration paperwork was approved, and rather then send us a simple notification telling us this, Uncle sent a small envelope that contained a pamphlet entitled “A Guide for New Immigrants.” Stuck to a letter inside the envelope ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Remember that video I linked to last week? Today, little m got a message from her favorite uncle: a welcome message.
Welcome to the United States. We have received your immigrant visa packet from the Port of Entry where you entered the United States.
This letter represents the first step ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
I have delayed writing about our last day in Ethiopia in part because having a kid around the house makes life significantly more hectic; also, I'm still jet-lagged and have been going to bed at 8pm and getting up at 4am when she wakes up. Today, she's still asleep, and ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
On our last day in Addis Abeba, I ran for a second time in Ethiopia. Another father who had come to adopt an eight year-old came with me. He's a much slower runner and so when we arrived at Meskel Square, we separated. I took off at a pretty fast ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Have you ever been so tired that your fingers start to get numb? Your legs stop functioning the way they normally do, the muscles react but it feels like they react in slow motion. As of right now, I haven't slept more than six hours in the last 48. M ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
We left Awassa at 8:00am, after making a quick detour to pick up two social workers who would be joining us. In addition to Barry (name changed), the driver, there was C, the government social worker who was there when little M was given up for adoption by her mother, ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
We left Addis around 7:30am and drove through the beautiful countryside, through tracts of farmland spread out on either side of the two-lane road to Awassa. It was Sunday, so there was very little traffic and Barry (name changed), our driver, sped along the highway, pointing out various sights along ...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
We arrived in Addis Abeba after more than 20 hours flying and with a little troubling heartache in Frankfurt. Mulat, the HH driver, met us. He came right up to us in the arrivals terminal as though he knew what we looked like, which he probably did. He informed us ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
I fell into deep slumber around 11pm last night, too tired to even read more than a page of The Brother's Karamazov as the words blended together on the page and in my head. I dreamt of far away lands, a huge city high in the mountains teeming with people, ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
It's been more than a week since I've updated, and in that time a shit-ton has happened. First and foremost, we have an official travel date of 2 July. In five days, M and I will board and plane and travel to the other side of the world, to a ...
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