Well, two months have come and gone and today I find myself on a gloomy & gray foggy day trying to come up with something interesting to write about. But you see, after the newness of a place wears off it turns out you just revert back to "doing" your normal life and there is nothing particularly glamourous about normal life.
Things like taking your car to the mechanic to get the crack in your windshield repaired {and embarrassing the kind man from the embassy who agreed to accompany you by driving like a crazy foreign lady} just don't seem that noteworthy or blog-worthy.
We kept spotting this type of decal on the backs of cars, or round yellow ones with exclamation marks in the middle which we discovered were designed to alert other drivers as to who's behind the wheel: either new drivers or women or some hybrid of the two. Hilarious. I thought about getting one for myself...
Attempting to mow your lawn which has bushes and plants very inconveniently placed so that your mower doesn't actually fit, therefore forcing you to try to cut most of it with an edge trimmer, then being accused by your {deadbeat} husband that it looks like you gave your grass a "bad haircut" is just not the kind of thing your friends back home are dying to read about.
So you can understand why I have abstained from writing for so long...who really wants to know that you've spent the last 5 weeks getting owned by the Insanity Workout DVD's and are currently procrastinating from doing it by writing this blog entry?
While still on relatively boring topics, the rest of our shipment arrived this past week and while unpacking boxes containing all your belongings may seem exhilarating at first, you very quickly realize you own way too much junk for your own good and spend half the time you're unloading grumbling to yourself and making little promises to yourself {which you secretly know you won't actually keep} that you will downsize before your next move {or else!} But it is nice to finally have things like my mixer and all of my spices/extracts so I can finally get to cooking the exotic things I like.
Seriously though, I do spend some of my time doing interesting things. We went to the Marine Ball two weekends ago which was, actually, glamourous. People got super dressed up and it made me really thankful that I had found a fancy schmancy dress on sale back home a few months ago. It was really fun!
This past week I spent some time with some visitors from the US and got to visit a few orphanages with them in the countryside {including one for deaf children}, a soup kitchen for the elderly and a pasta factory in a tiny town in Southern Moldova, almost at the Black Sea. Back in the capital, we spent some time at a rehabilitation home for girls who had been rescued from trafficking and brainstormed various projects for providing employment to women who were rescued or who are at-risk of being trafficked, or re-trafficked as is tragically the case here. Unfortunately I didn't get any photos on these trips and the warmth of the lovely people I met doesn't really transfer well into writing, my apologies. You'll just have to stay tuned for more developments on that front...
Things like taking your car to the mechanic to get the crack in your windshield repaired {and embarrassing the kind man from the embassy who agreed to accompany you by driving like a crazy foreign lady} just don't seem that noteworthy or blog-worthy.
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| Lookout! |
We kept spotting this type of decal on the backs of cars, or round yellow ones with exclamation marks in the middle which we discovered were designed to alert other drivers as to who's behind the wheel: either new drivers or women or some hybrid of the two. Hilarious. I thought about getting one for myself...
Attempting to mow your lawn which has bushes and plants very inconveniently placed so that your mower doesn't actually fit, therefore forcing you to try to cut most of it with an edge trimmer, then being accused by your {deadbeat} husband that it looks like you gave your grass a "bad haircut" is just not the kind of thing your friends back home are dying to read about.
So you can understand why I have abstained from writing for so long...who really wants to know that you've spent the last 5 weeks getting owned by the Insanity Workout DVD's and are currently procrastinating from doing it by writing this blog entry?
While still on relatively boring topics, the rest of our shipment arrived this past week and while unpacking boxes containing all your belongings may seem exhilarating at first, you very quickly realize you own way too much junk for your own good and spend half the time you're unloading grumbling to yourself and making little promises to yourself {which you secretly know you won't actually keep} that you will downsize before your next move {or else!} But it is nice to finally have things like my mixer and all of my spices/extracts so I can finally get to cooking the exotic things I like.
Seriously though, I do spend some of my time doing interesting things. We went to the Marine Ball two weekends ago which was, actually, glamourous. People got super dressed up and it made me really thankful that I had found a fancy schmancy dress on sale back home a few months ago. It was really fun!
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| Ronald didn't get to come to the Ball... |
This past week I spent some time with some visitors from the US and got to visit a few orphanages with them in the countryside {including one for deaf children}, a soup kitchen for the elderly and a pasta factory in a tiny town in Southern Moldova, almost at the Black Sea. Back in the capital, we spent some time at a rehabilitation home for girls who had been rescued from trafficking and brainstormed various projects for providing employment to women who were rescued or who are at-risk of being trafficked, or re-trafficked as is tragically the case here. Unfortunately I didn't get any photos on these trips and the warmth of the lovely people I met doesn't really transfer well into writing, my apologies. You'll just have to stay tuned for more developments on that front...
