Ok well here are some of the things David learned at the conference. First we discovered that his sessions covered many similar things to mine... but here are some interesting things he found out.
From his notes...
-bring home a treasure box...to put important things from China and her life...
-Find a Balance.. meaning make sure to keep her Chinese culture alive as well as American.
-Learn as much as you can about the province they are from.
-Save everything from Gotcha day...they'll ask about that alot!
-Get some Chinese coloring books while there.. I thought that was great idea! I also saw a puzzle of China that is like the US where you put the states.. only it was the provinces..
-Get some basic phrase CDs for Chinese.. trying to do that now!
-Bring powdered Gatorade.. sorry Bulldog fans.. but this is to help when in China if ya don't feel good.. and it makes sense.. keep up the electrolights and all that.
-Check out Yahoo Groups.. will have to do that soon.
-take advantage of street merchants in Guangdong.. that's where the US Consulate is in China. Have hear this from several families.. you can get some awesome deals on all sorts of stuff there.!
And he had a few other things that we had heard in the other sessions about to be aware that it'll be tougher with attachment if your child was in a foster home instead of an orphanage.. which makes total sense. Show her how proud you were of having her. One person said .. explain that we planned and planned this for years.. it wasn't just a quick decision. Most of this is just is common sense.. Thankfully we both have that!
So that was the conference.. it was great! hopefully there are more of these type of events to help us thru the long waiting period. I just keep telling myself we'll have her after 2 Christmases.. This one then another.. and that's it. Kinda makes the time not seem so long. Just keep praying to speed up the Chinese Adoption folks... :)
Zai Jian
~Donna
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