Seoul: Monday Dispatch
Monday, 10.23.06
2039 Hrs. Seoul, Korea
Amazing day. We met and held baby W for the first time today. It was profoundly moving. It’s pretty amazing. Since I’m less overwhelmed than I was the first time around, I think I was better able to take notice of the feelings I was experiencing. I'm not going to go into it here, because I think it's so personal that it would read like drivel anyhow.
Seeing him today for an hour and now having 48 hours until he joins the family is like an espresso shot, a short blast of what my new family feels like.
He’s a sweet sweet boy, with an amazing and full smile. He is, as S has aptly described him, heavy but not chubby. He’s solid. The word in Korean for healthy and strong sounds like “konga,” and that’s the word the foster mother and her daughter used.
He is very attached to them, and they to him. We can say about Mrs. Han and family that we couldn’t have asked for a better, more loving and caring family than they. As we sat in their living room, I actually enjoyed talking with them (through an interpreter, of course) and liked watching them hold and interact with W. The daughter showed me half of a three-minute video she took of him with her cell phone yesterday. He was cooing and making gurgly noises. It was great.
I’m looking forward to Wednesday, for W to be part of the family, for H to interact with his new little brother, and to begin seeing how this new person changes our lives forever.
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I went into that record and CD store around the corner from where we're staying and bought a bunch of stuff, all CDs: the Korean release of Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits, Pat Smear’s So You Fell in Love With a Musician… (which I didn’t know existed), a Beggars Banquet sessions bootleg, a strange two-CD Jane’s Addiction bootleg of shows from ‘89 and ’91 that are printed in Australia but come with a Japanese OBI band, the Japanese edition of Paul’s Boutique (with two extra tracks), and the U.K. Subs’ Live at the Roxy.
Long day.
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On iTunes right now: Smash It Up (Parts 1 & 2) by Damned, The
Hooray! Konga. Awesome.
Posted by: figlet | Monday, 23 October 2006 at 08:26
Wonderful.
Posted by: walein | Monday, 23 October 2006 at 12:54
Stop spending all that cash at the record store. You've got mouths to feed!!!!!!
Congratulations T.
Posted by: Tim | Monday, 23 October 2006 at 15:15
Soooooo....how is it?!!
Posted by: Figlet | Wednesday, 25 October 2006 at 12:39
Soooooo....how is it?!!
Posted by: Figlet | Wednesday, 25 October 2006 at 12:39