Three sisters Ethiopian adaptation to life with their new parents to Juneau
Although Mahlet, Eyerusalem Ashenafi and enjoy sledding and snow buildings, they are reluctant sometimes, all the clothes they need for gift of reading tea Harbor in their court.Ashenafi, 4, turns this week, his sister, Eyerusalem, 5, and big sister Mahlet, 9, grew up in Ethiopia tropics, where traditional clothing is the Shamma, a tunic Toga. Now they are adapting “gloves” and “jacket” and all these words.
The brothers and sisters were Learmonth Barbara and her husband, Albert TINGLEY in Juneau and were nearly two months. Mahlet does not want to talk about the trip from their homes in Africa.
“I’m sick plane,” she said. Then joke, she said, there are 132000 children in their class, and that “Ms. Gleason” is the name of their school.
TINGLEY, 44, works for commercial fishing sheet Commission, said the couple’s Instant maternity grew a meeting with international adoption is in favour of the visit he made in December 1999.
“Barbara and I talked, and then we went,” he says, that the abridged version of history. “Our lives have been placed on the head - but not as strong as him.”
Learmonth, 52, works for the state health and social services department, she said, and wanted to stop TINGLEY brothers and sisters.
“Many have abandoned children in orphanages at birth. Obtains be only two children from China, and I thought about several races was ridiculous,” adds Learmonth, fishing in a Ashenafi Table, where he attempted an ambush lighting.
“The nice thing about these children is that they were fixed by nature, loving parents. They know how to create a family. His mother died 1997, and his father in 1999, and there were no other member of his family, take care of yourself “, says she. “They have really simple, like their parents. It is an adaptation for them here, but I do not see the attachment problems.”
By chance, brothers and sisters in the house orphans Addis Ababa, the same month TINGLEY participated in the adoption of the meeting. Learmonth TINGLEY and, last February to adopt, and was the adoption in late October.
The couple met children from 3 December They stayed with them in Addis Ababa for two weeks to learn in familiar surroundings.
“Mahlet, said his father spoke English, many adults speak English,” said Learmonth. “They went to school for two or three years, and English is the lifting fastest.”
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