This momentous occasion deserves its own post. My sister, Lyena, finally made it to the US for a visit. After very stressful 9 months, her escaping from Ukraine to Turkey, then back to Ukraine, it’s been kind of crazy. We were all so happy that we could be her sponsors for the U4U program (she could have come and stayed for 2 years). After our failed attempt to get her a tourist visa, this was the only way for her to see us.
She arrived at RDU!
My mom was already here, so it was all of us together, finally!
And now fast forward four weeks... after a whirlwind of a trip to NYC, getting sick for Christmas, ballroom dancing, shopping, working lots with MG, hanging out with the boys and me, she had to go back to Ukraine.
Our selfie with no masks finally...
Don’t know how long it will be before we can all be together like that...
Her plan was also after Ukraine to go to Turkey and get settled there for a bit as the electricity/internet has become so problematic for her at times and she needed it to keep her job. She speaks Turkish too.
Oh yes, and, of course, we couldn’t just send my mom and Lyena back to Ukraine with no humanitarian help. United Airlines were so helpful! MG pulled some strings and they let them take ten suitcases to Poland for free. All of them full of headlamps and uniforms, fleece, medical supplies and hand warmers. It was incredible and helpful!
And this is how this page of the story ended. My mom and Lyena arrived safely to Poland and then still had to take a bus across the border back to Ukraine. Crazy world right now...
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