With less than two weeks until we leave, the reality of this adventure and the move that follows is starting to set in. A week from this Saturday, we board a plane and head probably as far away from Western Civilization(TM) that I've ever been. It's a bit daunting.
The culture shock - that I can probably deal with. Yes, I'll miss the internet, but I've found I deal well enough when unplugged. I'm actually not too worried about the culture differences. The reading I've been doing has put some things at ease, though I do wish it was a bit more recently published. (1985 is when most of these were published, which was 10 years after the country gained independence. It's been nearly 15 years since then, and I know how much the US has changed in that time.)
I'm feeling a bit ungrounded with what I'm going to be doing. There's been talk about me doing tech work there, as they're apparently desperate for on-site technical support. The real questions I have are what decade of technology will I be supporting. (And will all be computers or will it be things like "the ultrasound doesn't work right".) I'm sure I can muddle through that well enough, but a bit of foreknowledge would be nice.
It will be an adventure, certainly. (The flight out there alone with Miriam will be an adventure.)
