Things you find on Google

My husband was googling last night and ran across an article we thought was only in our local paper. Apparently from the angle of "Ethiopian children get a second chance in north Idaho" it was interesting to the whole country. There are other ethnicity's in north Idaho, in case all that you have heard is about white supremacists. I have never actually met any white supremacists, at least none that introduced themselves as such. I am not saying that they don't exist, I am saying that there are a lot more non-white supremacists around.

When Rick shared this new with me this morning I had a small panic attack. What did I say? What will my parents think? Oh, great what are the comments? I was relieved to find that the comments were few, equally positive and negative, and fairly typical. My biggest concern is always how does it speak about Ethiopia?

I loved Ethiopia. I especially loved the people of Ethiopia. They were open, friendly, funny, warm, genuine, and honest. We met people in the airport going both directions that were very glad that we had been to their country. They shared their experience living in Ethiopia, or living in the US after having grown up in Ethiopia. They were proud of their country. They were concerned about some of the difficulties facing their country, but they were hopeful. They were hopeful for their children. They were concerned that they get good educations, and be strong leaders. The children were incredibly fun. They all gave us huge smiles and said "hi." They loved to try out their English on us, and had gales of laughter when we tried our Amharic.

When we were leaving with Nesradine several people were watching us. I think they were wondering where he was going, and how he was going to be treated. One woman watched me for quite a while. I was very self-conscious, I really did not want to offend her. I had no idea how Nesradine would handle the trip home, so I was doing my best to keep him comfortable. After a while she came over and talked to us. She was friendly and said that he seemed very comfortable with us. I was so relieved. She kept an eye on us all the way back to D.C. When we parted ways there, she wished us well. I truly hope that we will go back to Ethiopia, definitely for visits, and hopefully some of my kids will desire to spend extended time there.

I think the article was fair. I hope that message that comes across is hopeful. These children are really an amazing gift to us, I hope that I can give back a small measure of what Ethiopia has given to me.