Returning to China

I am twelve years old and was adopted from Wuhan, China at four months. I have a ten year old sister that was also adopted from China. My sister, Rebecca, was adopted in Zhanjiang, China when she was nine months old. Growing up my parents always told us stories of adopted families that had adopted children just like our family. My mom and dad also told Rebecca and me that we would soon return to China to discover what our homelands looked like. In just two weeks I am planning to return to China with my family. In just two weeks we will get to go to the cities of Wuhan, Zhanjiang, Beijing, Guangzhou, and to Hong Kong. While we are in China we will get the opportunity to sit down with a Chinese family and have a full Chinese meal. We will also visit a Chinese school, an elementary school for deaf children and even visit Rebecca’s and my orphanages. To prepare for this trip Rebecca and I have organized a toy drive for our orphanages. Along with collecting toys my mom and grandma have been sewing tag blankets. Tag blankets are small pieces of cloth that are sewn together with pieces of ribbon in between. These tag blankets will be given to the small babies in the orphanages.