Our Visit to Orphanage in Foshan and her finding place

We visited Zians swi today on Thursday 28th Feb 08. We then travelled to locate her abandoment place now known as her finding place in Guichang Town, Nanhai District, Foshan city.

This day for me was very draining but also so uplifting to the spirtit.

We visited the swi to the open arms of Ms tang and all the staff. We entred through the huge locked entrance to have a carer yell 'Gay Gay', grab Zian and walk away from us. It turns out she was Zians main Carer and loved her so much she was happy for us but missed Zian so much. She was crying and that started me.

The power of the visit was that we could see she was very muched loved and adored ccccccccx vv v v v v vv vv hhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjjjjjj.Okay that was zian helping me type as she is on my lap.

We were able to have play time with her friends awaiting adoption, in the activity room. We were there for bottle time and let me tell you, 210ml bottles are drunk in under 2 mins. one.

Some babies then had sleep time. Some did not, they wanted to play with Zian.

This girl has Spunk i tell you. The babies like her and i think we meet every staff member in the place.

I was able to spend play time with some children, who's families are travelling soon to meet them. I had time with each child which was lovely. Rememerting at all times these babies are Zian's play mates and have been for past year. It will be lovely to keep in touch with these families over the years for the children as this is a important phase of any childs life.

Zian loved being back and even went back into her own cot which they still have not taken her name off. She also loved knowing we were close and was happy to leave with us and no tears.

We gifted the children of the orphange some duplo blocks with buckets and 2 tents with coloured balls for them to enjoy at play time. I am sure they will be delighted. The swi currently is full with 100 children. There are 20 babies under 5 months 22 babies 5 months to 15months and 10 to 2 years. The remaining children have special needs of which 15 may be accepted by CCAA for adoption. The others that CCAA do not accept will be cared for by orphanage.

Travel to Finding Place.

Ms Tang drove us to the area of which she thought may be close to finding area. We then spoke through our guide to locals to find exact point of abadoment. It was a lovely place for the community to play basketball and to sit out in sun with friends. There were little children playing with their grand parents. Lovely to see. Definately a poorer area. The local older people in park were talking about us amognst themselves, trying to work out why we were there. We had video camera out, digital camera , chinese baby, two white people,(i guess we kinda stood out)They decided maybe we were adopting but they said our baby was not Chinese..What the!!!!!!!!Was good to have a laugh when our guide was telling us.

Zian has decided today she no longer wants to drink her formula. She eats evrything in sight so we will see what comes over the next few days.

We keep getting in trouble from the older people that we dont have enough layers on her.I thought 5 layers would be enough.lol

I am writing this actually on friday 29th as blogspot was down again last night.

Connie, Julie Anne and Heidi and families, i hope that we could bring instant happiness into your lives today when you opened your email and had photos of your babies. It was pleaseure for us to be invited to have cuddles and play with them. W e thank you for that.

Jake and Tayn, Mummy and Daddy miss you guys so much and cant wait too see you in Melbourne. We have been away for over a week already and i hope that has gone fast for you.
Take care xoxoxo