Thanks Thanks to dozens of escorts who helped with nearly 50 orphans come to the United States from Ukraine & Poland for summer holidays.BLOOM (Be Love Orphan Outreach Missions) arranges host families for the kids to stay for the holidays. Click for details See pic to right of Cindy Quilici with kids in transit:
But escorts are not always so easy and it takes special sensitivity to deal with these children see pic below of two little boys who had spent a year at Shriners in Days they were escorted on the last leg of their journey by escorted by DFW based Brian Chen:
“Liang was happy & bubbly from the moment I took over. He watched Disney movies throughout the whole flights. About 6 hours before landing, he pulled out his notebook the hosted family gave him for his birthday gift, started drawing, and asked me to draw something and he then started crying momentarily repeating:
“Why do I have 2 families?”“I don’t like today.”
“I want to go back with my mama & papa at the planet earth.”
“I don’t want to go back to my parents in China.”
“I want to leave RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW.”
“Help me.”
Fortunately he did NOT take his seatbelt and acted leaving. That stayed for about an hour, I wiped his tears, until he exhausted and I found out keeping playing Disney’s Frozen was the solution to keep him out of the thinking. He then slept until landing. I did not wake them up as they ate on the first meal service, not a lot. Other than the crying, he was behaved good & quiet in flight.
Erica Chin escorting Astrid home to TGU. We do have fun on these trips!
I think Wang could not speak a lot because of his burned lip and contracted muscle around his mouth. In fact, we communicated with hand signs, my wordings (water? Orange juice?) and he nodded his head. He was happy throughout the flight, no crying. I kept him going to restroom every 2-3 hours.
I communicated both of them in English throughout the flight, as they wanted to communicated in English.
Thanks,
Brian Chan
