Final Project - Tiffany Lim

This is Home: The Life of Being Adopted into an American Family 

By Tiffany Lim 

Netsana Arnold, 21, watches her team's rugby match anxiously as she holds onto Boona, her family's newly adopted dog at University of Maryland's Engineering Fields on Oct. 23, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana's brother, Josiah, 17, who had come with her to support her rugby team, feeds Boona on a rugby ball at one of Netsana's rugby matches on Oct. 23, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim)

Being the last few to enter the house, Netsana's younger brothers' shoes are placed out of the shoe rack as they had no more cubicle space on Oct. 23, 2019.  (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana, along with her brothers, Josiah and Eli Arnold, 12, sit around the kitchen island in their house with their father, Ken Arnold, 56, as they wait for their lunch on Oct. 23, 2019 (By Tiffany Lim)

Her father brings Netsana to the barn with him to fix the door on Oct. 23, 2019 (By Tiffany Lim) 

Both Netsana and her father found deer tracks on their walk through the woods in their backyard on Oct. 23, 2019 (By Tiffany Lim) 

This bookshelf, which lines the doorway, holds albums of each of their children with their names written on masking tape and pasted on the side of the albums on Oct. 23, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana lights up one of the candles on the dining table before her family joins her for a Thanksgiving meal on Nov. 28, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Seated around three tables joined together, the Arnold family pass the dishes among all eleven children at the dining table after prayer on Nov. 28, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana's brother, Nick, 30, talks about his day as he takes the food from Selam's hand on Nov. 28, 2019. (Photo by Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana's mother, Lucy Arnold, 55, smiles as she drinks the family's traditional Thanksgiving drink of cranberry juice and yogurt on Nov. 28, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana and her two biological brothers who were adopted at the same time as her, Selam and Meseret, 16, help to clean up after their Thanksgiving meal on Nov. 28, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana's brother, Nick, helps to put the chinaware used for the Thanksgiving meal back into the cupboard on Nov. 28, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim) 

Netsana's brother, Meseret, is on the ladder next to the fridge with magnet portraits of her parents, her siblings and her, each with the words "All We Need is Love" on Nov. 28, 2019. (By Tiffany Lim)