It's a familiar smell. Stepping off the plane and into developing Asia, you can never mistake that smell. It's indescribable. Something like a mix of spiced smoke, humidity, and maybe a touch of arsenic and methane. It's not good or bad. It just is. And it never leaves you.
Here we are again. New country. New home. New language. New has become an old routine. We're making a house into home, finding food to satisfy our difficult diet, scouting out a community and learning a new map. It isn't easy, but there's a rhyme and reason to it. The embassy definitely makes life in a foreign country much easier than it otherwise could be.
We had a wonderful social sponsor who met us at the airport, brought us home, and helped us get set up our first week. Zack will start school on Wednesday; he meets his new teacher tomorrow. His 5th birthday came and went; it was a little sad not to celebrate with friends, but a couple small parties back in the States helped ease the loss.
Gabriel has his heart set on a remote control Lightning McQueen car he saw at a toy stall. Perhaps for his birthday.
John starts work tomorrow. We're keeping a very early schedule as the sun rises around 5:30 a.m. and sets around 5:45 p.m. Traffic is terrible after 8 a.m. so embassy people start work early anyway. It's 8:05 here and I already feel like I can barely keep my eyes open. I hope to have more energy as a routine forms. I am recovering fairly quickly from jet lag, but I'm sure I'm still feeling some effects.
I hope to post more in the coming days, but now time and energy do not allow. It's tough just to keep up with life and basic communication with family right now. We're working on car and house help right now. Setting up life in general. It's a process.
Here we are again. New country. New home. New language. New has become an old routine. We're making a house into home, finding food to satisfy our difficult diet, scouting out a community and learning a new map. It isn't easy, but there's a rhyme and reason to it. The embassy definitely makes life in a foreign country much easier than it otherwise could be.
We had a wonderful social sponsor who met us at the airport, brought us home, and helped us get set up our first week. Zack will start school on Wednesday; he meets his new teacher tomorrow. His 5th birthday came and went; it was a little sad not to celebrate with friends, but a couple small parties back in the States helped ease the loss.
Gabriel has his heart set on a remote control Lightning McQueen car he saw at a toy stall. Perhaps for his birthday.
John starts work tomorrow. We're keeping a very early schedule as the sun rises around 5:30 a.m. and sets around 5:45 p.m. Traffic is terrible after 8 a.m. so embassy people start work early anyway. It's 8:05 here and I already feel like I can barely keep my eyes open. I hope to have more energy as a routine forms. I am recovering fairly quickly from jet lag, but I'm sure I'm still feeling some effects.
I hope to post more in the coming days, but now time and energy do not allow. It's tough just to keep up with life and basic communication with family right now. We're working on car and house help right now. Setting up life in general. It's a process.
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