China (Day 7)

In the morning we visited BICCO (Beijing International Committee for Chinese Organization). This is a fabulous program facilitated by a mom & her son from the Philippines. They work with children that have CP. They provide physical therapy and hygiene training for moms and their children. They have families travel by train to spend 2 weeks at the facility; some travelling over 10 hours. The success stories they share are amazing - children unable to even respond when they first arrive, able to walk out of the facility 2 weeks later ~ who says miracles aren't still happening!


This little girl is autistic as well as having CP. I worked with her in the morning. She would follow the movement of music & sound. She had a fabulous smile & I called her the closet talker. I would talk to her or sing to her, then after I would "walk" away she would start repeating me. When we would catch her at it, she would just smile. It was a kind of game I guess :-)

After lunch we had an additional 2 hour delay before we could visit the next place so our guide set up a foot massage for me and Gloria. Oh my, it was really relaxing. It started with a hot soak in tea water, followed by a foot, knee, and leg massage. There were times that they really got in there but it felt great in the end. (you can see Gloria's blog for pictures...I was enjoying it too much to worry about pictures)

Then we were off to Amazing Hands. Oh to have the energy of this house mom. She was so good with the children. All of the workers had tons of energy but the house mom made you tired just watching her; she was constantly able to play with all 10 children, separately.




This little girl just loved to coo at you. She would try to mimic your "aaa" and "ooo" mouth and sound. It was really sweet!

We finished the day in our hotel room - catching up on emails, homework, and naps. I had a PB&J for dinner ~ it really hit the spot :-)