Attaining harmony with the earth
Vanin C.
2011
In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life
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Iteach at St. Jerome's University, a small Catholic liberal arts university in southwestern Ontario. When I returned to work after an eight-month parental leave following the adoption of our two daughters from Ecuador, I indicated to close friends that on the day that I first met Sofa and Daniela, I felt as if I had been dropped off a very, very high cliff-from the life of work and relationship that I had known and had been living for a long time, into the incredible life of parenting two little girls in another country and culture, in another language, in an apartment in the capital city, Quito. It was exciting and overwhelming. For the next two months in Ecuador and then eight more months in Canada, my husband and I totally focused on the girls: helping them navigate a new country, culture, and language; learning to be parents; becoming a family; setting up routines and structures for survival; and starting school, to name just a small fraction of what awaited us. © 2011 Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved.
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