Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Days 29 and 30 - 10/19 & 10/20/08 - Court round 1



The 'fun' continues ...our court hearing did not go as planned. We only had a copy of the SDA approval rather than the original and the judge would not accept it. Our facilitator could not get the original document to us in time for the hearing and thought he had made arrangements with the judge to accept the copy. However, a prosecutor objected to the copy so we have to go back to continue the hearing Wednesday morning. We know have the original so we're ready for tomorrow. Everything at the hearing seemed to go okay aside from the document issue. We were there for about 90 minutes and had support of the local inspector and the school's social worker who were present. Hopefully, it will be a smooth hearing tomorrow.

We moved to Donetsk anyway so it will be a day trip tomorrow. We had checked out of our hotel and they had no vacancy, which is fine. We had made arrangements for this apartment and didn't want to mess it up. The apartment is very nice, even has a dishwasher and wide-screen TV. Our US DVDs won't work here though, wrong region. By far, this the nicest apartment we've had so far.
(Found out later the dishwasher does not work, but the washing machine spins at 1000 rpm so our clothes are drying almost overnight. But these wonders have a trade off ... we have a few roaches. We've got all opened foods now either in the fridge or the microwave and are keeping the clean plates, silverware in the fridge too.)

3 comments:

Conethia and Jim Bob said...

I hope your court appearance goes better today. Best of luck.

ArtworkByRuth said...

So sorry this has occurred! We too had the faxed copy and not original for our first court hearing. We had court but had to go back four days later to finalize the process. Our ten days started from the second hearing! We were truly devastated and our pictures from that day show it! Don't forget this truly is the end of the journey! Prayers for you today! God Bless!

adopting2fromUkraine said...

That's Ukraine for you! If you have a copy, then the original states the same thing!?!:0

We'll be praying for everything to go smooth on Wednesday.

June