With less than a week to go before our departure, we’ve been compelled to reluctantly commence the melancholy round of goodbyes to the many people and places that make up our daily life here at home. It’s an opportunity to reflect on and then all the better appreciate that what really matters are things we…
Category: The L’s In Rwanda
This is the ongoing tale of a family of four carrying out a six month stay in Rwanda. It involves some planning, some thinking, some compromising — and probably some trial and errors as well.Come along for the ride — from the comfort of your own home. Learn from our mistakes and take part in the fun.
The 21st of July and our departure for Rwanda is suddenly looming quite large. Two weeks and change… Feels slightly unreal, and yet at the same time very, very real in that deadline-ish way. The first signs that it was getting closer was when we started buying stuff at the supermarket with a “sell by”…
No, really, I’m not — but now I even have the documents to prove it. For certain jobs in the United States – like teaching and pretty much anything to do with kids – you need to undergo a background check, or, rather, your potential employer is obliged to run a background check on you…
Oh, boy. This one is a biggie. The “Heart of Darkness” is of course also the “Heart of Nastiness.” Ebola, typhoid, yellow fever, bilharzia, gorilla cooties – you name it, people will claim you can catch it in the jungle just by breathing the air. Or not. I mean, really: 98 percent of this stuff…
In the first part, I talked about why you might want to take your family on an extended overseas adventure, and then I went over the discussion of how badly you need to want to do it, and picking a place that meets your criteria. Then we got the kids on board and decided when to go…
So, in the first part, I talked about why you might want to take your family on an extended overseas adventure, and then I went over the discussion of how badly you need to want to do it, and picking a place that meets your criteria. And now it’s time to talk timing: when is…
In the first part, I went over the “why” part of the whole “let’s take the kids on the road and go somewhere vaguely ridiculous for a rather long time” notion. Once you’ve figured that one out, it’s on to more practical decisions, but… First things first: you need to want to do it. I…
I love the quaint old term “going overseas.” It conjures up images of steamer trunks with colorful stickers, starched napkins at the captain’s table shortly before hitting an iceberg, Dr. Livingstone taking afternoon tea on the savannah and all that. Alas, in this age of effortless global travel you’d be hard pressed to arrange something…
