I gotta say it's great being able to stay in touch with friends and loved ones. Last night I was able to Skype with my mom for an hour and a half. Video chat brings a bit more "closeness" than just talking on the phone. After that I was able to talk with my grandparents and aunt in California. Again it's so awesome to be able to stay in touch that way. I think it's good to use different mediums to keep in touch, but you have to find a balance. Right now we have this blog, Facebook, telephone, and Skype. Those are our main methods of keeping in touch with friends and family. Oh and now I'm using Picasa to post my pictures to the web. (By the way here is the link to my Web Albums https://picasaweb.google.com/mwalls88). I think I'll add it to the margin area to make it easier to get to.
So whats new? Tomorrow we should receive our HHE (House Hold Effects) This is all the crap... I mean our belongings we shipped here from Iowa. It's not everything, we put a lot in storage, but it is the rest of our stuff we planned on having here. It will be nice to have all our pots and pans and sheets and blankets and our Bed! We haven't been going without, the Embassy actually furnishes the houses and we have what's called a welcome kit. In the kit there is towels, sheets, dishes, pots and pans and a lot of the items you need. It's almost like all the belonging you had in your very first apartment, you have pots and pans, but the quality is not quite the same. So I get to take Monday off and show the movers where to put all the boxes, then we get to start the arduous process of unpacking. It's gonna be a little like Christmas, because I don't remember everything we shipped here. Once we figure out what we have we'll venture out to get what we forgot. I do know we need to get a TV, our old ones went to storage. Now we need to get a Multi-System TV that will work in the different parts of the world we could wind up in. Right now we are using a borrowed TV, but we watch most of the shows we like online.
Well enough chattering for now, I'll post some unboxing pix so you can share in the fun and excitement of unpacking.... I wish it was easier to convey sarcasm in writing.....
До свидания!
So whats new? Tomorrow we should receive our HHE (House Hold Effects) This is all the crap... I mean our belongings we shipped here from Iowa. It's not everything, we put a lot in storage, but it is the rest of our stuff we planned on having here. It will be nice to have all our pots and pans and sheets and blankets and our Bed! We haven't been going without, the Embassy actually furnishes the houses and we have what's called a welcome kit. In the kit there is towels, sheets, dishes, pots and pans and a lot of the items you need. It's almost like all the belonging you had in your very first apartment, you have pots and pans, but the quality is not quite the same. So I get to take Monday off and show the movers where to put all the boxes, then we get to start the arduous process of unpacking. It's gonna be a little like Christmas, because I don't remember everything we shipped here. Once we figure out what we have we'll venture out to get what we forgot. I do know we need to get a TV, our old ones went to storage. Now we need to get a Multi-System TV that will work in the different parts of the world we could wind up in. Right now we are using a borrowed TV, but we watch most of the shows we like online.
Well enough chattering for now, I'll post some unboxing pix so you can share in the fun and excitement of unpacking.... I wish it was easier to convey sarcasm in writing.....
До свидания!
