I’ll be leaving for Moscow today to join Michelle who has been there a week already. Next Thursday we will be returning with Netta!
The week there has been a series of ups and downs as far as I heard from Michelle. At orphanage Netta was much more apprehensive than at the hospital. Perhaps this has to do with it being a familiar environment where the only things not familiar were Michelle and Karen (Michelle’s aunt who accompanied her). It didn’t help that there were errands that needed to be done with Netta such as taking her to the photographer for passport photos. It was all strange and frightening. Netta often looked like she was on the verge of breaking out crying.
According to Michelle, it seemed to get better though. By the third day, on the trip back from the doctor (standard procedure for visa application), Netta suddenly looked around and seemed to say to herself, ‘this isn’t so bad’ and started smiling and playing with Michelle.
So here is the plan, I am flying to Moscow today, on the weekend we will get to see Netta once in the orphanage then on Monday we pick her up at the orphanage and…. She is ours!
The next three days are full of arrangements for getting Netta’s Russian passport and American visa. Once those are in place we fly home.
So now you know everything.
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