Forming a family through international adoption.
Vlad picked me up this morning at 11:30 and we headed to the NAC. We waited a long time in the lobby. Elena went in and out talking to people to try and find out our status. Finally she came out with the registration letter and said that they now want me to write a letter requesting a 2nd appointment with the psychologist so I can pick out the child I want to visit. Good grief! What a waste of my time and the psychologist's. They know and I know what child I want to go see but they insist on me jumping through this paper hoop to satisfy their ineffecient massive paper system. So fine... I wrote the letter, Vlad translated, and then we stuck a copy of his passport, diploma, and POA to it. Elena then submitted it at 2:30 p.m. and it sat on someone desk for an hour. About 4:30 p.m. I got to meet with the psychologist (old man). It was a 5 minute process. He pulled out Roman's papers and asked if that was him, I said yes.. and that was it. So now they tell me that they won't give me a referral letter till tomorrow. Yet again a 5-10 minute process because all of their letters are computer forms that they just fill in 2-3 blank lines by hand. Elena managed to expedite the letter so that we can pick it up at 11:00 a.m. instead of 6-7 p.m.
After an afternoon of sitting around and waiting on the NAC director and staff, I stopped by the internet cafe near the NAC to send a note to the family. This cafe is cheap at 4 rph/hr. But the pc they gave me is horrible.. so no journal update today. After emailing the family, I hit a near by chinese restraunt and got take-out. The food here is what I would call imitation chinese. I have yet to see one chinese person in Ukraine. The food is something I could prepare from a Betty Crocker cook book. It doesn't do justice to chinese food.
I grabbed a taxi back to the apartment and Liola/Lidiya (I can't get this woman's name right) was there to meet me. I had left her $100 USD for the 3 days. The extra $10 would go to pay any additional phone expenses. Well now I had to pay her $30 USD more for another night. I told her to come back at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow when Vlad was to pick me up so that I could give her the key.
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