Day 33 (the TB test day)

Strike news:

Bogota judges have created a special emergency procedure to push adoptions through.  But we are not in the Bogota court system so we are still up in the air about our judge.

 

Kids:

Today we went for the TB tests.  We were accompanied by our lawyer’s assistant who drove us to the doctor’s office.    The doctor’s office was farther than I thought from the hotel.  It was about an hour and 20 minute drive.  I am glad that our lawyer suggested that her assistant come with us from our hotel.  On the way, it was nice to talk about the Colombian people and the culture.  The biggest thing that I learned is that if a person commits a theft, the criminal only spends 2 hours in jail until released.  I could not believe that.  Also, the assistant is a collage girl who has been to the United States once and her English was pretty good. 

On the way to the TB test little L got car sick.  Enough said.

Once at the doctor’s office the assistant talked to all the right people for me and the process went well.  The test went as well as it could.  B was really upset about the test but I can’t blame him because of his background.  Little L was very tough and actually showed less anger than B about the test.

On the way back to our hotel little L got car sick again.  Enough said again.

I paid the assistant her fee (which was really fair) and extra to get the car cleaned.  I felt really bad but the assistant said that little L is not the first child to get sick on the way to the doctors.  I was kind of surprised about this and the assistant told me that in the six months of her doing this little was her fourth child getting sick.  I wanted to say, maybe it was her driving but I don’t think she would have gotten my joke.  So I didn’t say it.

We will return on Monday to have the results read.

Side note:

One thing that I have noticed is that the police don’t patrol the streets like the United States.  They don’t give out tickets for speeding or breaking laws from what I can tell.  I have only seen a couple of police cars on the streets, most police walk the streets.