Post 25 - Leaving Nan Chang for Guang Zhou

I have not posted in a while. I got busy doing some other things for a while, and I really missed working on this blog. It was quite surprising to look back at what I wrote on April 8th, 2005 to start writing this post. I got behind at this same point then, but for different reasons :-)

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Dear friends of my Mom and Dad,

You might have noticed that my Dad has not been keeping this site up as well lately. Well, he kinda drank a drink with some melted ice by accident, and he kinda got Chairman Mao's revenge if you know what I mean. He also doesn't have quite the highspeed connection that he did in my home province, so he is kinda behind. But, he has diligently been playing with that flashy thing that makes these pictures of me and my birth country, so I am sure he will catch up. For now, I will tell you about the first part of my really big trip to my new home as I leave my birth province. Below is a picture of me in a hip hugger with my Ma Ma. Hey, put me in anything as long as I am with my family, I do not mind, but I do like Ma Ma the best. Please don't tell Ba Ba and Ge Ge though. They try, but they just are not Ma Ma.

   

Me in my Hip Hugger with Ma Ma

This next picture is a picture of me on a Gong- Gong` Chi` Chea- (a bus in Mandarin). I have been on a bus before, but I thought you might want to see my first tooth. Look really close right below my tongue.

Me Showing Off my First Tooth (right below my tongue)

Dad got a picture of Aunt Mary on our way to the airport. She took great care of my parents and the parents of my orphanage sisters while we were in my home province of Jiang Xi. She is a special lady and she lives in Nanchang, and you will have to ask my Ba Ba or Ma Ma why in person.

Our Last Trip with Aunt Mary

Here I am with Ba Ba after we checked our bags. I am getting ready for my first flight! I will fly about 1 hour from Nanchang to Guangzhou. Wow, I thought Nanchang was big. I am going from 4 million to 15 million. They are both a lot larger than Shang Gao where my orphanage was.

Getting Ready for my First Plane Ride with Ba Ba 

(You too could look this GQ if YOU had a beautiful Asian Daughter)

I like this real food stuff my fumu (No, not my Daddy's friend from the Congo - that is the word for parents in Mandarin) give me. If you look carefully in the picture below, you can see me eating one of my favorite new foods, Honey Nut Cheerios, just to the left of my finger. Flying was really pretty underwhelming. At least I got to be on Ma Ma and Ba Ba's laps the whole way and play with Ge Ge.

Me Eating a Honey Nut Cheerio on the Flight from Guangzhou to Nanchang

I guess I found flying to be pretty underwhelming