Interview

Our day started as many have been, tired from less than a full nights sleep. I just couldn’t sleep until early morning so Greg let me sleep until 9:30am. Olga arrived at 12:30 and we had our nice clothes on ready for our first meeting. Our walk went quickly to the department so we wandered along a souvenir and art walk. I had too many nerves to buy anything. We went to the doorway with Olga and were standing with several other people waiting the summons up the stairway. I had such butterflies in my stomach waiting and we walked up the stairs when summoned. Irena was our interviewers name and she was quite young, maybe 25 years old. For some reason seeing her helped calm me down. She looked at our passports and then our photo book and seemed to enjoy thumbing through the pages. She wanted to keep the book at the department. I guess I should have made two. Now we don’t have one for the orphanage. They presented us with 5 cases all boys. They were all under 7 years old and only two under 5. We’ve made a decision to see a 3 year old boy who is in House for Babies #3 in Kharkiv. It is the second largest city in Ukraine. We have plane tickets and an apartment already reserved. Olga works quickly. She takes care of every detail and we are going to fly with her tomorrow night. It’s an hour flight from Kyiv. We will give you many more details when the time is right. We will see him Friday morning and depending on the internet access we will try to put more up Friday or Saturday so you know our next step. Love to all.