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A seed is planted.

Our friends have left and I have a couple days of peace before another group arrive next week.  The friends that just left are a couple we knew back home who are also posted abroad.  The wife gave up a very promising career in HR to follow her husband (who used to be D’s roomate).  [...]

The perks are nice.

We’ve had house guests for the last week, which is why I’ve been so quiet.  Another round of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City; the Silk Market and the Pearl Market.
While I LOVE having friends visiting (especially friends from home), it’s completly and totally exhausting for me.
And we have another friend coming on Tuesday [...]

A first time for everything.

This morning I was supposed to go swimming with another spouse (in fact, the only one I know who also doesn’t work and doesn’t have children).  I sent her a text message to confirm that we would meet at 10 a.m. in the lobby, and she called me to tell me she couldn’t make it [...]