In their own words...
Hi, I’m Giovanny, I was adopted six months ago. I was in foster care for 9 years and lived in many homes; this is why I am so glad that I was finally adopted. I am really glad Mattie is my mom, my real mom and she is no longer my foster mom. I am eleven years old, and there were a few times when different people were going to adopt me and then nothing happened. I liked the houses that I lived in and my aunts which is what I called my foster mothers. I always wanted to go to one school and not be moved around every year. I never went to the same school for two years; I did not like that at all. Now, I’ve been in the same school for two years and I am playing soccer too. I am going to middle school and all the kids from my school are going there too. I never played any sports and I love to play sports. I am really short and if I had done more sports I would have been happier. Now, I have a real family, brothers and sisters and a mom and grandmother, I like it very much.
My new mom is really great she takes me to play baseball and soccer and she stays with me at the practices and games. She even put me in a baseball training school so that I could learn how to play baseball. I am getting to be really good in baseball. It is great to be adopted it’s like I am a regular kid now. I am planning to go to college in the future and I know that now that I am adopted this will help me be the best I can be. I live in Miami and I have 3 brothers and 5 sisters, it is great.