Isn't it terrible, what is going on in the DRC?

, , You might not know this about me, yet, but I am very interested in Africa.

Therefore I was shocked to watch what terrible things are going on in the DR Congo every day.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/1340255

Christine Schuler mentioned that you all can help if you talk about what is going on there. This will hopefully increase press coverage and pressure on our politicians to do something about it.

Here is a link to another article on the atrocities:

http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/08/reallifedrama

I don't really know what to say. It seems so cruel what human beings are capable of doing to each other... I wish I could just go there and adopt a girl to prevent it from having a destiny like this...

AF finally arrived this morning and I called the doctor's office. I will go in there tomorrow morning and then we will officially start our first IUI after three IVF attempts. Normally it is the other way around and you do first IUI and then IVF. But in our case due to financial issues, we will do it this way. As I wrote in an earlier post, I don't really expect it to work anyway as the chances are only 15%... But who knows. I am a little disappointed that AF came so late. If we wanted to do another one this year, it would have to be approximately on Xmas eve. I don't even know whether our doctor's office will be open that day. So it might be just this one... But hey, it is open season and we will be able to get out off our crappy health insurance.

No news from the adoption agency, yet. I am getting nervous that I haven't heard anything. I have to check with them that they received the paperwork. I'll do this tomorrow.

I am thinking about whether we should switch to international adoption. If we have such a hard time to get everything done before we move overseas, it might be easier if we just adopt from overseas. But I also really would like a newborn or an infant. And that seems not possible in an international adoption. Just an idea... If we find out during the home study that our time line doesn't work, we can still switch...