Gee Toto, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10th, 2009Yep, once again I’ve not updated this thing for months. And a lot has happened in the meantime. Actually, one of the reasons I hadn’t been updating was,, well nothing all that exciting was going on. When you’re unemployed, the main concern (other than money and the usual job hunt stuff) is how to keep yourself occupied, where you’re going for coffee, a beer etc.
All that changed last month, when I received an e-mail from a company I had interviewed with back in January while in the US. Am I still available, and can I start work the middle of June. Uh, that meant packing renting out the apartment, finding movers, etc in about a weeks time.
Did I mention the job would be in Puerto Rico for 3-4 months, then off to Tennessee? Friends were telling me that I could probably sell the job when I decided to quit or retire.
Sure, no problem. Things were kind of rushed, or I would have done the usual “expat leaving China after a long stay” sort of thing. The poignant stories about final dinners, saying farewell to friends, etc. Actually barely little time for that also, sort of “hey, I’m bailing, catch you on Facebook type of thing.”
So, here we are in Sunny Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. About as far from Dongguan, China as you can get, not only geographically, but also surroundings. I mean, instead of dodging crazed cantonese women on motor scooters on the way to work, I’m dodging the neighborhood horses that got out of their fields and decided to graze on the side of the one lane road that goes to where we call home.
I won’t even mention the factory, lets just say we’re not in China anymore with that one too.
So, time to write about this adventure. Once the internet comes back up and I can post online, I might start doing that regularly. Apparently, the internet connection, which in this apartment is wi-fi through the upstairs neighbor, is sort of spotty. To many clouds, too much rain, and no connection. As expats we like to complain about China, but it’s not so bad compared to other places.
More on that later.
