Tuesday, Sept. 21st

Today Li-Li, Maura Genet, Baishi, Yu Chuan and I went to the
orphanage. We met Helen in the lobby at 10 am. Baishi has spent the
last 6 years of his life there except for about 3 years when he stayed
with two different foster families. We gave him a choice of whether he
wanted to go visit or stay with Daddy and Bella at the hotel. He said
that he had 2 friends still there and wanted to tell them goodbye. He
also said that all of his other friends had already been adopted. It
took about 30 minutes to drive there. It is a HUGE orphanage that has
over 1000 children. Most of them have special needs or are older
children. He was very proud and gave us a tour. He moved back to the
orphanage a month ago to wait for us to pick him up. The orphanage was
extremely clean and the kids are very well taken care of. The main
building is actually a hospital with an xray room, lab, treatment room
and much more. The director actually came out to meet us and gave me a
book on the orphanage, as well as, his personal email address. The
orphanage was so big that we had to get back into the van to visit the
area where Baishi stayed. Unfortunately, Baishi did not get to say
goodbye to his friends since they were both in school. We did find out
that Baishi had only a week of 4th grade. In the US, he would be
starting 5th grade but actually just started the 4th grade in China.
They pulled him out a month ago when they moved him back to the
orphanage.

When we got back to the hotel, we rested awhile before George, Baishi
and I went to another meeting. We had horrible traffic...it took over
an hour to get there. They were closing when we got there but they
allowed us in. This was the appt. for Baishi to have his picture taken
for his passport...very important. It took almost an hour to get back
after the 5 minute appt. At this point, we were exhausted. We ordered
room service and all 6 of us slept from 6:30 pm until 6 am. We felt
great when we woke up!! :)

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