cameronlee
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I wish it was all sunshine and rainbows, but we’ve had a rough start. The people here have been kind and thoughtful. I’m thrilled about my job. The kids love…
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How to get to work? Bike or run? Too polluted in winter, and need to wear a suit. 🤔 Buy a car? Takes months… Taxi? Carpool? Hire a driver? hmmm….…
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Day: minus 2. Arlington, VA: waking at 4am to start the time-zone adjustment, zipping odds and ends into suitcases, pawning our groceries off onto the neighbors, returning the rental car,…
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Getting here was special torture. A 32-hour itinerary, spanning 3 planes, 4 countries, and a scant few hours of sleep. The kids were brave, but their little bodies could not…
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“Wheels Up!” is what you exclaim when the plane has taken off. PCS-ing* is a drawn-out process, but the moment when the plane wheels lift up defines the moment of…
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Our visas are taking a little longer than expected, due to the UN General Assembly currently taking place in NYC. See inside the UN mothership, left. As a diplomat family,…
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YAY! The family arrived in DC! Finally! The other evening, Jenne and I were asking each other, “What if we hadn’t done this?” (“This” being the whole thing where we…
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When Jenne and I were looking for our first house, we found a 4-leaf clover 🍀 in the yard of one house. It eventually became our home — for exactly…
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I did security training, aka the Foreign Affairs Counter Threat course. I thought it would be fun. It was too intense to be fun. Interesting, cool, useful, eye opening, impressive,…
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We’re thrilled that our first post will be Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan! How do we feel about this post? Couldn’t be happier! It reminds me of when our oldest kiddo started kindergarten,…
