I hate essay questions

Jenn asked a great question on my blog re: the testing we've had to do. I'm so happy to say it is DONE. Well, if we passed Part 4 of our test, which is debatable. From what I understand, in order to comply with the Hague Convention guidelines, a minimum of 10 hours of pre-adoptive training is required. There was a "start date" for this and apparently we are part of the new process.

We had to watch 4 DVDs with different adoptive parenting info: attachment (that was tonight's), sensory integration dysfunction, the unmet need of the child and something else I can't remember. The DVD was two parts - "The Science" and "The Parenting Plan". The first 3 tests were multiple choice and tonight, to our surprise, was part multiple choice and part short answer. All about attachment. Well, goodness gracious! I paid attention but not essay-question-kind-of-attention. So that test gets hand graded (oh and I take one test and K takes one test - we're graded separately) and we'll know in a week. Something tells me we'll be re-watching DVD 4. Yikes!

My dossier made it safely to St. Louis. I called today to be sure and found out my coordinator is on vacation until July 11th. Someone else is going to be double checking to make sure I have everything I need done and done correctly so I can fix things next week if need be. Long story short, we won't know much about a region until the coordinator is back and had time to review my dossier, meet with the director and come up with a few options. I would guess we'd know a day or two after she gets back but I will NOT call her on Friday the 13th to find out. Superstitions!

I hope everyone has a great weekend and a happy 4th of July! I don't plan on blogging before then, but I am a chatty cathy so I'm sure I'll think of something to say!

Becky