Finally, after packing and repacking 6 suitcases, saying goodbye to dozens of friends and family, traveling over 25 hours across the world, and having an intrusive and abrupt physical, we're in our new home in Asia.
It is wonderful. For all of our readers benefits, we'll call our city "Boone" since you probably can't pronounce the asian name anyway! Plus, we're in the mountains, and the weather is similar to Boone, where Scott went to school. We've been here since Wendesday, the 22nd.
Our apartment is roomy, but very dirty. We hope to move out into a new one soon, but this will do for now. Scott is working hard, putting laminiate flooring down in our bedroom, since we can't get the concrete floor clean. (I'd keep trying, but the shop owners get mad when I keep buying all their stock of bleach)
Our city is a maze of large streets lined with big apartments, shops, restaraunts, and hotels, through which tons of alley ways run. The alleyways are crowded with shop owners selling chickens, cats and dogs, meat, veggies, baskets of apples and little shoes. What's really strange, is that our city is very poor, but some of the shops sell outrageously luxurious things. The furniture stores sell furniture thats fit for a king, literally. When we go into shops like these, we are always the only ones, and the owners follow us around hoping we'll buy something.
They sell so many American products here, we really don't lack much. (Tide, Panteen, Avon) and we can get almost anything for our home that we can in America except a dryer. We have a washing machine, microwave, hotwater heater, and space heaters. (it's really chilly here)
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