It's been exactly two months since my last post - almost exactly two months since leaving the States. Since then, I've been wildly riding an emotional rollercoaster, covering the spectrum from elated to murderous. If you've been around me recently, check yourself - I might be talking about you. Right now, I'm sitting in a 24-hour internet cafe, just across the road from Cavendish Mall in Claremont. It's 8 pm and I'm about to head home to the family. I selfishly ducked out for some "me" time, after entertaining the kids solo all day (Susan had a wicked headache and spent most of the day in bed. I removed the children to the waterfront play area). We've experienced so much, traveled just a bit and are nearly settled in. We received our air shipment and should be getting our sea container by the end of next week, with all our heavy household goods including beds, other furniture, computers, remainder of kids toys, DVD's & CD's - in short, necessities we've been struggling without.
Susan has been publishing pictures on Shutterfly and I've yet to find a home for mine. It's an issue of connectivity. We have none. (Hence, the internet cafe). I haven't gotten my act together to upload the hundreds of megs of images to either my gallery here, or Shutterfly.
What else? I've been working, the kids are now both in school, I'm attending the local Go club (Japanese board game) and we took a long holiday weekend to the middle of nowhere (which is right next to Vermaaklikheid, apparently :) ) with Chris Pinkham and his family. Those "in the know" got Susan's email about it. Good experience.
Lots of other things to discuss. It's too sticky and drawn out to document here, but suffice to say there are reasons I'm not keen to return to Seattle anytime soon. Once we complete our two years here (and I hope to accomplish something memorable in that time), we'll have to reexamine our 'universe of discours' and draw some new conclusions. Who knows where we'll land. Hopefully it will be near some of you - but which country?
There are so many similiarities and differences between our old and new lives and some are quite surprising. I don't have the time tonight to document them all, but I promise to begin transcribing all the notes I have on legacy media (my paper journal). Until then, know that we are well and wish you all the same. Please stay in touch and try to visit us at least once.
Posted by cbrown at June 25, 2005 11:02 AM | TrackBack