I sent a package to Duchang with a photo album for Jia and a disposable camera, in the hopes of getting a picture of Jia with her foster family. We also added a letter that we had translated and Lili and Fei made cards for Jia too. That were very sweet and I wish I'd copied them to put on here. I did black and white photo copies for Jia's memory box though. Anyways...the couriered package left the office last Friday and it's now stuck in China. Not much I can do, the address literally is 'near the bend on the road' and the clearing place in Guangzhou would like the correct street number. It would be better if I didn't have the list of check points to fuss about :) On the tracking site, the package has been scanned 21 times! Chemainus, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Richmond, Seattle, Louisville, Anchorage, Chek Lap Kok-Hong Kong, Shenzhen-China and stuck at the Guangzhou-China depot.
I also ordered moon cakes from a company in China to be delivered next week to the Jia's SWI. That was fun. Now I'm getting right crazy and thinking I should order some for Lili and Fei's SWI too. We shall see.
I spent my lunch hour in the Chemainus tourist shops looking for BC jade. Really, you'd think it would be easier to find. I found some I liked, but the packaging was dirty. I'm hoping the Royal BC Museum will pan out for me on the weekend. Trying to find jade as a gift to Jia's foster Mother since her name is Yu which means jade.
Still no word on TA. I finally went to the Sunrise site and read the travel part of the information packages. Nothing too earth shatteringly new. Nice refresher of the trip. I did print out the visa applications and I see that we need passport pictures. So that is something we can take care of before it's time.
Normally every year I find the first week back to school so hectic, funny thing this year, it seems quiet compared to getting a family ready to travel to China! So many details to take care of.
