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Why did Leah decide to travel to China to meet her birth family?
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Kuddehee on Anti E Radio One. O eight seven four eight four double eight double eight if you want to send a message by WhatsApp and Leah Kal is back on the line. We spoke to Leah a few weeks ago, uh, before a big, big trip upcoming. Leah, it's great to talk to you again. Um you might remind people at home uh listening what exactly you were preparing for when we last spoke.
Hi Carol, it's great to be back on. Um well, I've been just come back from a trip from China after meeting my biological parents for the first time. Wow. Um Yeah. I'm adopted from China for anyone who's listening that doesn't know. But um yeah, one could say it's a life changing trip.
I'm I've God, I'm sure it was. So just to again, uh for people who maybe didn't hear, they might expect that this journey to find your birth parents. would have taken, you know, possibly years. This happened at breakneck speed. W when we had spoken to you, you only had found out a couple of weeks ago and you already had plane tickets booked.
Yep. Everything happened so quickly. From searching at the end of June to getting a re um a potential match at the start of July on the seventh and then getting a confirmed match by the twenty seventh. And then I was in China on the thirtieth of August. So I have had not I haven't had a minute to breathe and just to like now that I'm at home and like everything's just kind of like it's coming down, I'm like, Oh my god, what do I do? Like what happens now?
So tell me, what was going through your mind as you're on the flight to China and you've got your your phone off, you've got a few hours maybe to think to yourself, what what what was going through it?
Do you know what? I it didn't really hit me until I was on the tr maybe when I was on the train from Shanghai to Dingyan.
How did Leah’s search for a biological match go from discovery to booking a flight in just weeks?
It like I didn't truly hit me because I had my mum with me Um, on the flight to China. So I was kinda just making su like I was worried about mom uh kinda making sure that she was gonna be okay because like China's so daunting to travel to and I was kind of like, Oh no, like I have to make sure that mommy's gonna be okay as well. Um how how
how was y how did your mom feel about accompanying you to China to meet your birth parents?
Mom uh Mom was actually great support and I think when I was talking to her about it, she was like I was more I was she was like, I was dying for you to meet your your biological parents but the whole trip it was like I was looking at you, I was making sure that you were okay and if you needed me I was there and she was just watching watching the whole thing happen through like my mom's eyes and making sure that I was okay.
Ever the Irish Mammy.
Oh yeah. And she like she stood back and she was like watching and she was making sure that I was okay. And now she got to meet all the family and it was do you know what there's a photo of me and my two mothers and you know what? It just It's so special. And it like to even like look at the photo and like And know that I've lived that it's crazy.
So talk me through then the the the meeting and you're you're on the train then from Shanghai out out to this city. And actually the last time we spoke, you didn't really want to say where it was because you said it was this uh a third tier city, so you thought maybe it was going to be slightly impoverished. But what was the reality when you got there?
Um, well, so the the city that the so like basically if you think of like the way I'm gonna think think about it is like So like Trim, for example. Like Tr Trim is like a big like busy enough area. And then you've got like the smaller, like little villages like Kildocky and um Robinstown, Dundary. So like it was the equivalent of like the main kind of town, Chuzo, and then we were out in a little kind of suburb area. Now it wasn't bad. The houses are very different, but um it actually very much surprised me when I when people said like old Hurd turd three tier city or third tier city. I was like, oh yeah, like Grand. But you know what?
What emotions did Leah feel on the flight and train ride before meeting her parents?
Uh I was expecting something like Nav and something like you know, small enough, but with enough there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Leah decide to travel to China to meet her birth family?
0:01–1:55
2
How did Leah’s search for a biological match go from discovery to booking a flight in just weeks?
1:55–4:01
3
What emotions did Leah feel on the flight and train ride before meeting her parents?
4:01–5:38
4
How did Leah’s mother react to accompanying her on the trip to China?
5:38–8:01
5
What was the reality of the Chinese city where Leah met her birth family compared to her expectations?
8:01–9:18
6
How did Leah’s first encounter with her birth mother and siblings unfold?
9:18–10:54
7
What role did translation tools and a volunteer play in communicating with her new family?
10:54–12:51
8
How is Leah coping with life after the reunion and planning future visits?
12:51–15:19