AdoptedEunmi

Visit Your Birth Country? It's A Crazy Great Idea

GuestBlogger — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:42:47 -0500

Today's guest blogger is AdoptedEunmi, a twenty-one-year-old Korean adoptee from Minneapolis. She comes to Adoption Under One Roof as the voice of a young adoptee just trying to find her way. She grew up in the so-called Korean adoptee capital of the world and has been an active member of its large adopted family community for most of her life. In 2005 and 2007, she spent time with her birth family in Korea, for two and eight weeks respectively. She speaks minimal amounts of Korean, and struggles to keep up with correspondence to her family. AdoptedEunmi has kept a personal blog, which you can read here.

While all of my friends scrambled through final exams and papers,

Kickin’ It Old Style

GuestBlogger — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:24:00 -0500

Today's guest blogger is AdoptedEunmi, a twenty-year-old Korean adoptee from Minneapolis. She comes to Adoption Under One Roof as the voice of a young adoptee just trying to find her way. She grew up in the so-called Korean adoptee capital of the world and has been an active member of its large adopted family community for most of her life. In 2005 and 2007, she spent time with her birth family in Korea, for two and eight weeks respectively. She speaks minimal amounts of Korean, and struggles to keep up with correspondence to her family. AdoptedEunmi has kept a personal blog, which you can read here.

One of the more interesting trends in adoption that I’ve seen as I’ve grown up a little more in the past few years is the increase of open adoptions.

I was watching Juno again last night (my fourth or fifth time seeing it), and it was the first time I really ever thought about it in terms of the adoption aspect. In one scene, the 16-year-old pregnant Juno recoils in horror at the idea of yearly letters and photos being sent to her home. She asks the lawyer if they “could kick it old style,” meaning a traditional closed adoption like mine.

I've Learned Your Language, Can You Learn Mine?

GuestBlogger — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:13:10 -0500

Today's guest blogger is AdoptedEunmi, a twenty-year old Korean adoptee from Minneapolis. She comes to Adoption Under One Roof as the voice of a young adoptee just trying to find her way. She grew up in the so-called Korean adoptee capital of the world and has been an active member of its large adopted family community for most of her life. In 2005 and 2007, she spent time with her birth family in Korea, for two and eight weeks respectively. She speaks minimal amounts of Korean, and struggles to keep up with correspondence to her family. AdoptedEunmi has kept a personal blog, which you can read here.

When I studied German, it seemed so much easier. After five years, I considered myself semi-fluent and dropped the language to focus more on studying Korean.

This was the summer after I met my birth family for the first time, and after my first experience with an interpreter, I hoped to never have to rely on them again.