Today, we tried calling Olegs again and found ourselves playing a slightly different game with the children’s home staff this time. Today’s game was called “set the phone down and walk away.” Again, we called and asked for Olegs. The woman who answered the phone sounded like she was going to go look for him but of course we had no clue what she rattled off to us in Latvian. We were just so thankful that she didn’t hang up on us this time. It soon dawned on us that she simply set the phone down on the desk and went about her business. We could hear people coming and going, kids screaming and laughing, the office staff cutting up, etc. (all of this very entertaining by the way). So Rob and I were together on the line wondering if we should hang up or wait. We kept hearing footsteps coming closer to the phone but then they kept on going. I finally started whispering and then shouting, “Sveiki, Sveiki, Sveiki!” (“hello, hello, hello!”) hoping some kind soul would pick up the phone. After about 25 mins. of wasted calling card minutes we hung up.
Rob and I decided we’d better find out what’s up with Olegs before we try calling the children’s home again. We don't want these "games" to escalate further. We emailed Ilga and asked her to call the children's home to see what the deal was. She was able to find out that Olegs was away longer than we originally thought, so he wasn't there when we called. The children’s home staff was probably trying to tell us that when we called before, but of course we didn’t understand a word. I’m sure it drove them crazy when we kept calling back. Oh well. Ilga found out a good time for us to call Olegs so we will try again and hopefully talk to him next time.
Since we couldn’t reach Olegs, we tried calling Kristine again. We got through to her very easily and she was a totally different girl this time. She was giggly and playful. We told her how much it makes us happy to hear that she’s happy. Her friend, Agnese, was there visiting her today so they were typical giggly girls. Kristine put Agnese on the phone and we got to say “hi” to her. She said “yes” to everything so we don’t know how much she understood of what we said. We could probably have asked if she liked to eat dirt and she would’ve said “yes.” LOL! We later heard from Ilga that Kristine was just in a bad mood the last time we called and that’s why she was so quiet and sad. Another adoptive family will be traveling to Latvia next week to go to court for their future daughter, who is a friend of Kristine’s. Ilga said Kristine is down about that and is wondering why our case is taking so long. We were thankful that Ilga could call Kristine and explain everything to her in Latvian so she’ll understand exactly what is happening.
We hope things will start moving faster with our case. We will contact our attorney again next week. There were two other adoptive families in Latvia for court dates this week, so our attorney was pretty busy. We’re hoping things will calm down for her a little now that those families are heading back home. Maybe she’ll have time to focus on our case again. We just want to bring Kristine home by Christmas. We’ve still got time, so hopefully that will happen.
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