[Pinkie]

I kept Antonina's birth name because I thought it was a lovely name but her name was totally alien to her. She was never called Antonina by her birth family nor in the orphanage. The transmittion was smooth enough. In the beginning she did repeat her name used in Russia a few times but that was in the first few weeks.

As for school, alot of it depends on your circumstances but for the record Antonina was in school within a week and it has worked for us.

P.S. Antonina was five and a half years old when home forever.