A Lion Dancer meeting with kids at last weekend's CCAI Reunion. Sarah showed me a thing she had to write for Summer Camp on "Why I Love Summer." She wrote, roughly, "I love summer because I got to go to a reunion." I'm pleased she found it interesting. A former colleague of Tam's, the guy who took our wedding photos in fact, adopted two girls from China after hearing of our experience, and Sarah took to the older of them (now 5, or two years younger than Sarah) this time, becoming a real mentor as they roamed the area around Burke Lake. (Actual overheard comment by Sarah to Mira: "You can pick up the rocks and see what kind of bugs are underneath.")
Whenever I see hundreds of Chinese adoptees together -- all bright, all enjoying themselves -- I think of what a huge part of its (mostly female) human capital China has exported due to its one-child rules. Our gain of course, but what a price they, and the many birth parents who felt they could not keep their daughters, have paid.
Here's a video of part of the lion dancers' performance:
Sarah is in neither the still picture nor the video, for reasons explained earlier here. Pictures with her included are in our family sites at YouTube and Flickr for those invited as friends and family.
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