Why have I not written anything for a month? Well as you know we’re moving and you can probably surmise that that involves a lot of work. Plus my work at the embassy. Plus Tim (my brother) and Lurene (his wife) were here for two weeks. Plus I organised a Japanese tea Ceremony at the ambassadors residence. Plus making arrangements for flights etc. with a cat. Plus we still have to close on our house. Plus….
So now that the movers are here and we’ve sifted, separated, categorised and chucked the junk, there’s nothing left for me to do but watch and make sure they don’t pack the embassy furniture.
From this point on we live out of suitcases and the embassy pack-up kit (a few dishes and sheets etc.). Pretty sparse living for a while. Of course when we arrive in Ottawa on July 20 we will then continue to live out of suitcases with a headquarters pack-up kit until our things make the sea journey and join us sometime in the middle of August (that’s an estimate).
It’s all very exciting and I am mentally already moving to Ottawa. Mika, on the other hand is still firmly in Japan and working as hard as ever sorting out death cases, prisoner arrests and trying to convince Japan to sign the Hague Convention. Oh yeah and she will be covering some HR stuff while that person is on holiday. Working right to the end on July 16. I expect she will probably go into the office on the weekend though before we fly out on July 19.
There you have it. We’re almost back in Canada and we’re almost owners of a house and Mika almost has a new job (actually no she doesn’t yet, but HQ is “working on it”).
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