We’ve been living in Vietnam for 7 weeks. Life here is both exciting and challenging. Living abroad without kids, I remember the highs and lows–the thrill of making it work and the loneliness of being far away from family and friends. Here, meeting people has been effortless. So many families at the kids’ school are working for their governments or for the UN on 3-5 year contracts. Everyone has been somewhere else and knows a new home is on the horizon. Young children, I’ve learned, don’t always understand the that high or low of the moment is only temporary, that friends and loved ones await at home, and that new friendships are on the horizon. We’re weathering new challenges at school, new challenges at home. Here they are happy and delighted, eating meat in an outdoor restaurant in our neighborhood. What they don’t know yet, is that we’ll be moving next week. We’re being relocated by the insane development that is the new Hanoi. Fingers crossed~!
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