Comments on: Orphans and Old Men

By: Jeffrey Schwab

Jeffrey Schwab — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:09:16 +0000

Kim,
Reading responses like yours and Diane’s make me want to write more, travel more, keep doing what I’m doing. Thank you so much for your comments!

By: Jeffrey Schwab

Jeffrey Schwab — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:07:28 +0000

Diane,
Thanks for your comments. Going to the orphanage/retirement home are some of my best memories of Yichun. I miss visiting there with my students and chatting with the people who lived there, seeing my students with the children, getting to watch parents from the States return with their daughter on the way to adopt their second child. Really some amazing experiences. I look forward to going back sometime in the future.

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:49:15 +0000

Thank you for your thoughts. Our eleven year-old daughter was adopted from Yichun. We returned for a visit about two year ago. If you return, she is in the large photo with her sister hanging in the entrance. The girls are in white dresses.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:04:03 +0000

Jeffrey, I really enjoyed reading this blog entry. I have a daughter from Yichun SWI at age 9 mos. in Sept. 1998. She is much loved and treasured in the USA. We went back for a heritage tour in summer 2007 when my daughter was 9 years old. I got to meet her foster mother, Peng Xiao Lian. Peng Xiao Lian also cradled my daughter in her arms, rocked her, cried tears of joy, and spoke soft Chinese words into my daughter’s ear. We did not need an interpreter at that exact moment: they were words of love and relief. Relief that “her baby” had come back again. It was a life-changing moment for all of us. Not a dry eye in the room. Thanks for your insight into Yichun.

By: Jeffrey Schwab

Jeffrey Schwab — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:14:22 +0000

Cindy, thanks for the comment. I look forward to going back there and visiting every time I return.