Our Journey turned into more of a scouting trip than anything else (just call us the advance planning team)

 

It's a long story, but  there was a "small" problem with our appt.  --- It isn't until March 27th!  The facililitation team told Orson (our agency director) that they were going to try to get us into an appt that had come available on Feb 23rd.  But, when they told Orson that they were going to try to get us scheduled on the 23rd he apparently didn't understand that it wasn't a done-deal.  He did know later, but didn't communicate this to us.  Maybe he assumed it would get straightend out before we got here. 

 

Anyway, since the director of the NAC (the National Adoption Center in Ukraine) here hasn't been around for almost three weeks, the facilitation team wasn't able to change us to the earlier appt.   (Susan and Laurel's Appts are OK though!!!) We waited till today for the director to come back (because only she can schedule appts).  She was in very briefly today but did not do anything with appts and is gone again until next Friday!!!  So the team wasn't able to try to get her to let us have an appt next week and we've decided rather than wait any longer that we will just come back at the end of the March. 

 

So, this was sort of like a scouting trip for us.  We now kind of know what to expect and who the people are that we will be dealing with -- and they know us.  The team is really great.  They seem very honest and are very hard working.  I trust that they are doing their best for us.  Ilona (the facilitator most involved with our dossiers) seems genuinely concerned about all of us (I've seen it in her face).  Have faith in her.