Camille Davis, sister

Camille Davis, sister

Camille, 13, was 9 months old when she came home from Fuling.
`I don't remember anything. All I know is from some pictures and from what my parents told me,` Camille says.
The family celebrates Chinese New Year and Camille did lion dancing for a year. She said she quit to fulfill her wish to learn horseback riding. She took Mandarin for awhile, too. Now she is studying Spanish.
She knows two other Chinese adoptees in her northern California community. Her older sister, Grace, 18, has formed lots of friendships with other Asian kids. Grace's boyfriend, James, is also Chinese. Camille says that having an older sister has helped her absorb the frequent questions other kids ask about being Chinese and being adopted. Both sisters have done some Irish step dancing and both have done track and field, Camille says.
She says that other kids' questions about being adopted from China, `kind of made me feel special...It was kind of cool to be like, I come from here AND here.`</p>
<p>Asked if there is anything she would like other kids to know about being adopted and/or being Chinese, Camille says:
`Well I've had a lot of questions asked and I kind of know how to answer to them when they ask. Probably one of the most common is 'Are they your real parents....?' The other one would probably be 'Why would they give you up for adoption....' You get so many questions like that when you're growing up, you kind of know how to handle them and they kind of just roll off.`