Faith restored, blogging to resume!
After a month of nearly nonstop anxiety and stress the verdict is in! And it’s a YES! Thanks for hanging in there with me. Tales of expat life in Beijing coming soon!
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I really feel like someone pushed a giant, red pause button on our lives last month.
Please, US Consulate, if it’s not too much to ask, could you press PLAY already!?
Still waiting.
Still on hiatus until I know more.
In the meantime, visit The Brink of Something Else for a great series on adjusting to expat life, [...]
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I really want to say thanks for all the notes of support over our little visa woe and since I haven’t posted anything here in a while, I thought an update was in order. Alas, I don’t really have anything to update other than to say that we continue to wait and hope and pray. [...]
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Success in Beijing - Found a great apartment and will be signing contract tonight. Posts and photos as soon as settled with Internet. (8)
So my house looks like this:
Which means my life is turned upside down and I’m likely to stress out at any moment.
Oh yeah, and did I mention WE’RE MOVING TO BEIJING!?
I got tired of waiting for the DH to tell me it was okay to talk about this on a public forum. I can’t [...]
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Wide open window without screen
You’ve seen this window before. Everyday this past winter I would find this window in this position and I would dutifully shut it. Everyday. Everyday when it was -5°C. (It just didn’t seem efficient to leave all the windows open.) Leaving windows wide open in winter for the perceived “ventilation benefit” [...]
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• I agree with many Americans that illegal immigration is a major problem, can't deny that. What I do not agree with, however, is the way immigration laws treat married couples, when one spouse is a US citizen. (Especially when the spouse originally entered the country legally.) It sometimes seems US immigration's aim is to break up families. I'm speaking from personal experience here. The NYTimes has been running a lot of immigration articles lately that I can really relate to. This one surprised me, because the lawyerly advice the couple in the article received is exactly what I'd always been told. Someday I'll write about my experience with family immigration in Spain, and how it seriously contrasts with the US. (0)
• Why do I do this to myself? Out of a fit of boredom today, I spent the afternoon browsing Spain blogs, mostly maintained by expats. I am now utterly homesick. All I want to eat is fabada and chorizo. All I want to drink is sidra and la rioja. All I want to do is hike in the Picos and hang out in small Spanish cities. When will I get the chance!? (4)
