KIDS AROUND THE GLOBE October 2, 2006 Issue

A letter from Virginia

By Serkalem Carper

Some Of My Friends say I look Egyptian. My mom says I have beautiful eyes. I'm the tallest one in my class. I'm a good runner, and I love to swim. When I go swimming, I feel like a fish.

What makes me different from everyone else I know is that I'm both Ethiopian and American, and I'm in a family with other adopted kids like myself.

I grew up in the city of Addis Ababa until I was eight. My older brother, Abi, mainly took care of me, and some of my other relatives helped. Abi and I lived alone together, because my parents had died. I met my new parents from America at my great-aunt's house. When I first met them, I didn't know that they were going to become my parents. I thought they were nice, but different from any Africans I had ever met. And we celebrated Ethiopian Christmas and Easter with them.

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