My Adoption Experience

When I was 10 I traveled back to Vietnam for the first time after my adoption. The experience was so incredible and it changed my entire life. The experience opened my perspective up and made me think more about my life. The things I saw and thought about while I was there were so daunting. I would imagine myself living there, think about what my life could have been. Those thoughts inspired me to look at my life in a different way and ask myself, “am I really happy?”
I remember being so excited on that plane, it was my first time and everything was new and exciting. Everyone was telling me this trip was so important, and I couldn’t wait for it to start. I remember rows and rows of seats with people shoving bags into the shelves above and getting comfortable for the 16 hour flight. I stayed awake the whole time watching “Penguins of Madagascar” and other things to take up my time. When we finally got to Seoul my mom was ready to be done with flying, too bad for her since we had another 2 hour flight. After finishing the last flight Dao picked us up at the airport. We spent the next few day walking around with him, looking at historical buildings and

Da Nang had the best hotel. It was a resort so they had a fancy pool with a bar in the middle. Even though I didn’t get to order a pretty drink from the bar, it was still amazing there. After Da Nang we visited La Bang, the village where I was left. The village was very small. It had one school that was smaller than my house. At the time I was at Mcdonogh, so seeing this place made me think a lot about how fortunate I was. I thought about how the people here were fine living here, they had family, school, food, ect. They didn’t have what I had, but they perfectly fine living in the village. This is when I really started thinking about how I could have been one of these people. If my birth mother had kept me I probably would be living here. My life would have been so different, and I would have been so