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Dear Mum, I guess I should first start off with an introduction. My name is Sara Saliba, although you may know me as An Sook Young. Unlike Korean names, many English names have a middle name. My family wanted me to keep part of my identity, so An Sook Young is my middle name. Therefore my full […]

Maybe I am being dramatic, maybe I am not. On the 15th of February I felt a vibrate from my phone, I looked and saw it was an email from Family and Community Services (NSW). I remember glancing at my phone for what seemed like a few minutes, but was probably only 30 seconds. I couldn’t think […]

I never expected this call on a ordinary Friday at 2:05 PM, 15 April 2016 from my caseworker at the adoption agency. My case worker asked me if I was able to talk, many thoughts were going through my head. Was I going to hear information I hoped for or information that I have been […]

Two Thousand and Seventeen I have this gut feeling, not just your ordinary gut feeling. This gut feeling only occurs when I think about the possibilities of the future. My chest briefly starts to hurt, my stomach feels funny, my throat starts to get dry and I find that my body slightly freezes up. I […]

Well, today I received an email. An email from Family and Community Services. One that I decided to not open for a few mintues,

Time is an illusion – Albert Einstein.  TIME. A simple four letter word that can be easily defined as the past, present and future.  Although the concept of time is confusing it self, it can be difficult to understand. As time goes by, the past increases and the future recedes. But really, time is the now, the […]

The Story of Rhiarne Bruce In November 2016 I returned to Korea, my country of birth, for the first time. To be honest, I had not previously wished to return to Korea. My attitude was that of a young, stubborn child. I did not want to return to the country that had rejected me as […]

  The idea of a journey implies a beginning, middle and an end…. But over the two weeks I have discovered that it is not that simple. I seem to be always stuck in the middle with highs, lows and unexpected encounters along the way. An unexpected encounter in my journey led to a phone […]

  If you asked me this two years ago, I do not know what my answer would have exactly been but it has definitely changed. I think in one simple word; it means everything. I do not think I would give up completely everything in my life to find biological parents (now that would be […]

As part of the process to find my birth parents, I have received a ‘guide’ from the Department of Community and Family Services to prepare for the hard reality that I might never be able to find my birth parents. Or even worse, that although found, they won’t share my desire for contact. The first […]