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The Complexities of a Foreign Service Move (*with flow chart*)

I used to think of moving as a simple (but annoying) process where you threw everything you had into boxes, stuffed them into a Uhaul, drove across town and then unloaded those same boxes into your new place.  Oh how I LONG for a move like that…. alas, never again.  What...

Old Friends Down Under

After our patience-trying flight experience, we needed things to take a turn for the better.  Thankfully, that’s exactly what we got.  We arrived in Sydney and took a cab to Darlington, a suburb of Sydney where my high school friend Ann lives with her husband Will and daughter Freya...

Expat Rebellion

I.  Do.  Not.  Want.  To.  Be.  A.  Veteran.  Expat. Zoom in on me kicking and screaming as I’m metaphorically pulled to the one year mark.  “Noooooooo, we just got here!  Am I really saying good-bye to my first batch of friends and sponsoring my first incoming...