The one that got away

Here's the problem with a tenuous internet connection--your heartfelt comments may be too long-winded to make it to post before it goes out, sigh...Oh well.  We're traveling now and thus the internet connection.  My lost post was probably the wittiest, best--you believe me right?  But what I really wanted to say was,"Thank you from the bottom of my heart" to dear friends and family who've loved us and remembered us even when we've seemed even farther away due to the lack of internet connection.  We love you and miss you.  I feel we are beginning to adapt here and am grateful for it.  Know that you are always on our minds and in our hearts--much love to you all!

Oh Internet, how I miss thee

It’s funny the things you do, the things you learn in a different country.  Have I mentioned how much I love and admire my resourceful husband?  The things that would reduce me to tears, or gnashing of teeth, or both honestly, he takes in stride and manfully figures out a way to deal with all of them.  So, in our new “up is down” world Husband Dear must make many trips to the phone company to figure out how to get a phone/internet to our apartment.  After a week of many trips and many promises to come, at last the phone man comes.  It is hard to find our place because in “up is down” world we do not have house numbers or street names…but still life continues and business is done and at last the phone man comes.  And when the phone man comes he…does not hook up our phone.  But instead hands my husband a coil of wire and says, “When this cable is run to your house, let me know and we’ll turn your phone on.”   What?????  And this is the part where I would completely break, but God in His grace has given me Husband Dear who goes about figuring out the best way to run cable to our place.  How I love that man!

When up is down

We have arrived through the looking glass to the other side of the world.  And as we learn our new world there are some differences to keep in mind: cold water is stored on the top of buildings and since the outdoor temperatures stay above 100 (and hotter) at all times right now the cold water tap is actually hot.  Since cold is hot, there is no need to turn on the water heater, which means the hot water heater now stores the cooler water indoors.  Hot is cold (or warm really), cold is hot.   Our resilient children have actually adjusted to this much quicker than me—it’s kind of funny to think before you turn on the tap… “now, which is which again?”