grrlTravels

Let's get this show on the road

Well, I read the family assessment sent by the social worker. She really did a good job. One little mistake and that was it. It's quite strange to read about your life from the point of view of an outsider, written in careful prose intended for government workers who don't even speak the same language as you. I wonder about some of the terms and references.

For example, what would the following mean to you, if you were a Chinese diplomat trudging through another mound of paper to place another infant girl with an American family:

An extra-curricular activity E. participates in is Gymboree.

The first floor contains an office, kitchen, lodge room, living room, enclosed porch, and a bathroom. (A lodge room?, you may think to yourself.)

Anyway, apart from wondering what this all will mean to the lucky Chinese official who gets to read our dossier, M. did a lovely job. She made us sound much more normal, together, and motivated than we really are. I can only think that's a good thing!

Apropos of nothing, I'm off to finally do the water test on our well. For those of you who have a life and don't live near us and have managed not to hear about the "1,000 year flood" we had a big flood in our NJ neighborhood almost 2 weeks ago. In our little community, mostly everyone has well water. (Not thrilling for me, but yes we have our own well.) When it floods and the water is over your well, potentially contaminating it, you must have it tested. So we haven't really been using our water for the past 12 days. The good thing about this is that we have been eating out a LOT. Also, we were blessed with no damage to this house. So we really can't complain, although living without "good water" can get old really fast. So off to test the well and in a few days, perhaps life will return more to normal.

Posted by grrlTravels at July 25, 2004 3:18 PM