It has been a month since we arrived in Nouakchott, and as I mentioned this past week, things are settling into place nicely. My eldest daughter has made some great friends, my wife has been offered a job with the Embassy, and even my baby daughter has decided to start crawling and pulling up to
Over 3 weeks into arriving in Mauritania and I feel like I am getting in the swing of things. Both at work and with our free time. The work routine is becoming a bit more predictable and the administrative tasks are becoming more routine. In our free time, we’ve found a steady rhythm of going
How do you reconcile working for the government if you don’t agree with their policies or the direction things are going? What do you do if you strongly disagree with or even despise the current President or Secretary of State? This is a question I have been asked dozen’s of times since applying to join
It’s been a little over a week since we got to Nouakchott and it has been an eventful one. The first order of business was settling into our house, which has been going well. We still have some things to unpack, but it’s humming along. It probably won’t feel like “home” until we get our
Moving Stinks. It doesn’t matter where in the world you live, or how far the move. Moving is really tough. Just prior to our move to Nouakchott, I was able to sneak home for a bit and help with the final details of our move. Once there I had the common moving realization that we
Holy Moly! Today this blog celebrates one year of age, and what a year it has been!!! Although I am on the verge of shipping out to Mauritania, I wanted to take some time and reflect on the past year, and the blog as a whole. Obviously quite a bit has changed over the last
Orientation has come to an end, and with it closes the prologue of my Foreign Service career. Even now, after all this time, from getting invited to orientation in January, to now, about to embark on my first assignment, it all still feels so surreal. I really hope the feeling never goes away. I’m sure
Orientation has just about wrapped up, and the countdown to our PCS to Nouakchott ticks ever closer. The last week saw a lot of progress in making sure the move is a success and will happen on time. Diplomatic Visas have been obtained, Virginia finally mailed the title for the Nouakchott Battle Cruiser, the vehicle
Time marches along with a steady beat, and the move to Mauritania draws ever closer. As I mentioned in my previous post, relocating overseas for a diplomatic assignment is no small feat, and it involves a lot of moving parts. Making sure you get it all set up by the time you are expected to
Woof. In one months time I will be in Mauritania, settling into our new home, and starting my first assignment. I’m so excited to get there, but it feels like between now and then I have a million things to do, and not enough time. Let me try and explain what a PCS (permanent change
