Anya

Us right after getting Anya's SDA referral.

The train arrived this morning in Zap. It wasn't bad though I kept worrying about my daughter falling off the top bunk since she moves around so much at night... So got way less sleep than I normally would have.




Got to the inspector office around 2p and got the paperwork done shortly after for the referral and headed over to the school. Unfortunately the deputy director and director weren't there so we didn't get the official answer but it was clear Anya was coming and the inspector and social worker (?) asked her questions. We had rushed to embrace when she entered the room. It was a really good day.

Ashley had been saying, almost demanding, to go see Anya... Made it clear she didn't care about anything else but seeing Anya. We saw her smile more than any time at all on this trip. She really liked giving Anya the rose we got for her and the jewelry she had picked out in America for her.





The topic of Snezhana not going did come up... Which was good, it has been the elephant in the room on our calls for a while since we had not real answer to give her. When we told her she was only slightly bummed and was worried about losing her Ukrainian... Told her we would still go to the Russian speaking baptist church if she wanted and of course let her call Tanya her new friend from Ukraine in America... There is also Dennis though I understand he's not the level of communication she is looking for. We affirmed we want her to keep her language skills too as when she graduates from college, having three language fluent is a big step up... Especially in the DC area. I forgot to mention we are going to let her call h friends in Ukraine too.

We got as much paperwork done tonight as we could. We will be at the school at 8am to do more. We have to figure out with her what name she wants to go by tomorrow. We will also hopefully get the NHFC gifts handed out tomorrow too.

Location:Zaporizhzhya,Ukraine