Pictured: Jenna has grown into a slim girl.
In the past 20 years, a China girl grew up happily on the other side of the ocean, but deep down, there is always a kind of concern that is innate and lingering.
In the winter of 20 years ago, a baby girl who was born 1 month was abandoned. A few months later, the baby girl was adopted by an American family.
Time flies, the former baby girl has grown into a slim girl and was admitted to the prestigious Yale University. The girl never forgets her relatives in China, and has visited China for five times. Yesterday, after a long flight of 17 hours, the girl set foot on the land of Wuhan again.
The baby girl was placed in the street office.
Yesterday morning, 20-year-old Jenna Cook (Chinese name is Xia Huasi) appeared in the lobby on the first floor of this newspaper. A floral dress with clear eyes and a big bag on each shoulder. When Jenna saw the reporter, her first sentence was the standard "thank you".
In order to be more familiar with her country, Jenna chose Yale University to offer Chinese courses in 2009. She even learned to wrap jiaozi and make Mapo tofu ... Jenna said that she made every effort to find the "root" and her biological parents.
On March 24th, 1992, a baby girl was found in front of Zongguan Street Sub-district Office in Qiaokou District and sent to Wuhan Children's Welfare Institute.
At that time, Margaret Cook, a 42-year-old American woman, was waiting patiently across the ocean. She is a primary school teacher who loves China culture and submitted an adoption application to China at 199 1.
At the age of 62, she still remembers that1June 1992, she took over a baby girl as an infant. "It was my happiest day. I told myself in my heart that I would give her all my love." Margaret named the baby girl Jenna.
Under Margaret's careful care, the emaciated baby girl has now become gentle and lovely. She can dance China, skate, use chopsticks and know all the festivals in China. In China, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Margaret takes Jenna out to enjoy the moon. "On the other side of the earth, your biological parents can also see the moon ..."
I went to China many times to find my relatives.
In 2008, Jenna and two girls with similar experiences went to Wuhan Children's Welfare Institute as volunteers.
However, Jenna went back and forth to China five times, but she didn't find any clues about her relatives. Last summer vacation, Jenna went to Harbin Institute of Technology to study Chinese. Out of the train station, I saw China people with black hair and yellow skin, and my belief in finding my parents sprouted again.
At this time, Margaret has retired and there are not many sources of income in her family. Jenna applied for the 12 scholarship, and finally collected the expenses for returning to Wuhan. Jenna plans to stay in Wuhan for a month, trying to find her biological parents.
Handwriting for you.
The heavy package on her shoulder weighs about 5 Jin, and Jenna has never left her body for a moment. She spent nearly 10 months sorting out the information. From the photos of her infancy and the pictures provided by the welfare home to her growing experience in the United States, Jenna has carefully produced a photo album. She wrote a sentence looking for you in broken Chinese: "Dad, Mom: I miss you very much. Thank you for bringing me into this world. I hope I can hug you one day ... "
Before Jenna was formally adopted, she was briefly adopted by a family in China. Jenna hopes to find her foster mother together and thank her for taking care of her.