A Visit From China

Last night, MelodyJoy had a visit from China. Well, sort of. Nana and Craig came over for dinner. Craig is a graduate student at OIT and last spring he brought his new wife, Nana, to meet me because she was interested in taking classes at OIT. Nana is from southern China, about 90 minutes from Guangzhou by train. Naturally, we got to talking about our upcoming trip to China to get Nan Cai Jing. Nana was a great deal of help to us. She told us the meaning of MelodyJoy's name, translated some of the paperwork we had received from China and helped us with the notes that we wanted to give to the orphanage's nannies with our little thank you gifts.

We watched some of the video from our trip to meet MelodyJoy (Nana informed us that the teapot salesman was cheating us . . . she also was puzzled by the American practice of putting bows and ribbons in the little girls' hair) and had a good American meat-and-potatoes dinner.