[stylist] The Monkey in the Zoo: creative writing prompt

[Lynda Lambert]

I enjoyed reading this, too, Barbara. My husband and I had three little 
girls and then decided we could make room for another couple of children in 
our hears and home.  We adoped a little boy from Vietnam who is Vietnamese 
and Black; and we adopted a little girl from Korea in the 70s.

One day some people from out of town were trying to find our house. They 
stopped in the town to ask a policeman for directions. He said, "OH, that is 
the international family. Follow me, I will take you there."  Our friends 
had a police escort out of town and directly to our front door that day.

Our son is now 42 years old, married to a physician and has a delightful 
daughter who is in her first year of college at Mt. Holyoke College in MA. 
He is a highschool counselor in Maryland.

Our daughter was 9 years old when she came to America. She is a mom of two 
children and lives in Wisconsin.

Holidays at our home are a celebration of cultures and we have a full house 
as they all come "home" every Christmas.

In addition to those two children, we had several foster children over the 
years as well. These days, it is cats and dogs that fill our days and keep 
us busy.

Lynda
Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117

724 758 4979

My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com






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From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov>
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> Barbara
>
> My experience adopting a daughter in China was very similar.  There were 
> three of us western couples with Chinese babies.  We were always the 
> center of attention.
>
> Shawn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara 
> Hammel
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:00 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] The Monkey in the Zoo: creative writing prompt
>
> Okay, I know this is short, but is this sort of what this is supposed to 
> look like?
>
>  THE MONKEY IN THE ZOO
>
>  by Barbara Hammel
>
>
>
> I knew that visiting another country would be interesting, but I never 
> imagined the people would find me so fascinating. Or was it the twin boys? 
> Or the sighted man with a blind woman and a sighted woman and the blind 
> twin boys?
>
>
>
> By this time we'd acquired one stroller and my husband was pushing that 
> but I wanted a break from carrying the other in a backpack.
>
>
>
> We got into the cage--I mean stopped at a bench--to take a rest. Before we 
> knew it, we were surrounded by silent onlookers who, along with everyone 
> else we met on that trip, kept giving my husband the thumbs-up.  (Was it 
> the two blind boys are the two women or all of us and our purpose that 
> made them do this.)
>
>
>
> It took me back to my days at the Braille School when schoolchildren would 
> take tours. (It is the school Mary Ingalls attended, after all.) We would 
> always have to demonstrate how to write their names in Braille so a 
> hundred--or maybe just seven or eight--would gather around the desk and 
> not just stand there, but lean over me and the desk and the Braillewriter.
>
>
>
> Now this happened to us everywhere we went in China. (I often wonder if 
> that article the journalist was doing ever got published?)
>
> I guess we were a human interest story since we were adopting boys, a 
> rarity in that country, and I'm blind. I just wonder what they thought 
> about us, and I wonder how they thought each of us fit in the picture.
>
>
>
> Never mind, after all. We were just monkeys in the zoo, odd sorts of 
> beings because our eyes don't see and those two sighted people were just 
> our
>
> handlers.
>
>
>
> Barbara
>
>
>
> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg 
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