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We are famous

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Kewcumber · 03/03/2014 19:26

No really, properly famous this time...

provided you speak Kazakh and live in Kazakhstan

I'm a bit worried that when we do a birth country revisit we will be swamped by fans at the airport.

Unfortunately i look like a lump though DS does look like a film star in teh making.

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 03/03/2014 19:32

Is there a link? Or do you have people to do that for you now...

:)

MrsBW · 03/03/2014 19:57

I think your people have to talk to her people.... Grin

OneOfOurLilkasIsMissing · 03/03/2014 20:28

Grin Congratulations!

Have you got good reviews by newspapers/Kazakh version of TV guides?

Your DS is such a handsome lad he'd fit right in at the Oscars without a suit or anything

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Kewcumber · 03/03/2014 22:08

I was very worried about the spin they'd put on it as intercountry adoption is a bit of a hot potato over there.

But family of one of the Kazakhs I know said it was very nice and very positive. Very weird seeing yourself dubbed into Kazakh

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Kewcumber · 03/03/2014 22:09

If you pm me and I recognise your name I'll send you a link so you can admire DS's star quality (and me being unwittingly eaten by my sofa)

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Kewcumber · 03/03/2014 22:43

signed photos are £5

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MrsM2509 · 03/03/2014 22:46

Good on you, I bet it's fab! I saw your page in the psychologies mag and that was great, your ds is gorgeous

Devora · 03/03/2014 22:49

I just knew this would be kew Grin

Is this the documentary, missus?

Italiangreyhound · 03/03/2014 22:56

You realise there are few people who could say they will be mobbed by fans in Kazakhstan! And you are one of them.

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Kewcumber · 03/03/2014 23:03

It is indeed Devora

I was a bit startled as I was expecting to be edited down to a 2 min interview in a 30 min programme that covered heaps of childrne around the world. In fact they did a full 30 mins on each country (5 programmes in total) and we are actually quite a large part of this programme (as DS is old enough to be interviewed and was semi-coherent unlike the other chidlren involved) Blush

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Moomoomie · 04/03/2014 09:11

How did your hair look Kew? Grin
Would love to see it, will pm you.
Will we have to start making an appointment to talk to you now?

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Kewcumber · 04/03/2014 09:15

funny Moomoomie, as I looked at my blobbiness being eaten by the sofa I did genuinely think "Oh well at least my hair looks OK"!

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Kewcumber · 04/03/2014 09:17

For the avoidance of doubt - for those who have watched it - I am not the slim pretty one with the baby and the Royal family at the beginning... look out for the sofa... that'll be me...

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SuburbanSpaceperson · 04/03/2014 09:27

I have sent you a message Kew. Smile

SuburbanSpaceperson · 04/03/2014 18:43

Aww, your DS is so cute, and a very agile little footballer. He was a bit Hmm at some of the link bits where the presenter was speaking Kazakh and he was standing beside her. Grin I had to try lip reading (which I'm quite rubbish at) as it was hard to hear you over the dubbing.

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Kewcumber · 04/03/2014 19:34

bearing in mind this was done last summer and he wasn't even 8 I think he handled himself quite well... especially with a football.

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steppemum · 04/03/2014 23:21

I've just watched it. you can pick up quite a lot, but it is really frustrating that they dub the Russian, so you can't hear it!

You come across as very sensible and a lovely mum, your ds is fab!

I was surprised though that they didn't post his name as the Russian/Kazakh version of his name but as another name, did they use his birth name??

And I am sure I have met you somewhere!! (feels a bit WOO!)

OneOfOurLilkasIsMissing · 04/03/2014 23:24

I did feel for your DS when the presenter had her arm round him and was talking loudly in a language he didn't understand - it can't have been easy for him.

He came across very well, as a really lovely little chap Smile You came across very well too!

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Kewcumber · 04/03/2014 23:28

steppemum yes they used his birth name which is still his middle name. WE didn;t have a problem with that but it was odd becasue they used the adoptive first names of all teh other children even though some of them had very non-russian/kazakh first names and I chose his first name as one which worked in all three languages!

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steppemum · 04/03/2014 23:50

Did you meet the other families during filming?

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Kewcumber · 05/03/2014 08:16

No - but I already knew all of them! One of the comments the journalist made when I met her was "you're famous everyone we've met knows you!"

I run a UK Kazakh adoption group so a core group of families meet 2-3 times a year. And even those who don't generally come I've met at some point or other.

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steppemum · 05/03/2014 11:45

I have to say, that the longer I watched it, the more convinced I was that I had met you! It was your face and voice rather than name or story, so i am wondering if our paths crossed in Kazakhstan!

Moomoomie · 05/03/2014 12:44

Kew... Your son is wonderful, a real credit to you. I love the way he kept looking at you off camera when she was teaching him.

And yes.... Your hair looked very nice, as did the rest of you. I feel I really know you now, as I have been in your home.
Thank you for sharing.

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Kewcumber · 05/03/2014 16:02

That's so sweet of you Moomoomie. He was only 7 (last summer) when it was filmed and was going through a very tough time so I was a bit apprehensive about how it would affect him but he loved it!

I had forgotten that he had no front teeth then!

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