The Gezon Gazette: The Judge is Sick

Yup, the Judge is sick. We showed up to court this morning all ready to go and the girl working in our Judges office started speaking with Agim (our guy from BCS) and Bob and I knew right away something was up. The director from Mariada’s orphanage was there as well as the lawyer from the AAC. So we now have a new court date of December 10th. We all went out for a coffee to talk about what had happened and the Director and the lawyer do not want us to draw for a new Judge, they both say we have one of the better Judges for an international adoption and that we may end up with one of the ones that make it difficult. Mariada was really upset, even though she didn’t cry, she looked like she wanted to, I think she has learned not to, when I hugged her to let her know that it would be OK she pulled away a little which is so not like her. It’s so frustrating not being able to communicate the way we would like to. But other than this setback things are going well.

After lunch we went up to see Rozafa Castle. It was such a cool castle so fascinating to walk around something that has been here for 2500 years, we tried to explain to Mariada that a house that’s in America is considered really old if it’s 100 years old, she laughed and looked a little puzzled. I think the best part of the Castle trip was that Mariada got a chance to run around in the fresh air for a while, it really released some stress for her.

Tomorrow she has soccer practice and we are all looking forward to that, especially Mariada!