Catching Up

This weekend, we made a quick trip up to Connecticut.  After talking to lots of family and friends, I learned something.  People want me to blog more often.  You start a blog full of typos, spelling errors, and grammar mistakes, and people just want more.  Who knew?

Since the last time I blogged, the big news is:

We are going to Khartoum, Sudan! 

It will be a challenging post, but we are up for it.  And there are some benefits to this post.  For example, the R&R's.  When you live in a hardship post, the State Department provides you with a certain number of Rest and Relaxation trips.  They give you a round trip airline ticket to a more hospitable city, and you can either go to that city, or someplace of your own choosing for an equivalent cost.  For Khartoum, the city is London.  We can fly to London, or go someplace else.  If the fight is cheaper than London, its paid for.  If its more expensive, we pay the difference.

During a two year posting, and typical hardship post will get one R&R.  Posts that are harder get more R&R's.  Khartoum get four.  That is 4 more opportunities to see new parts of the world! Yea!!!

We will leave for Sudan in August, but until then, we have lots keeping us busy.  I completed my orientation in April, and was sworn in as a Foreign Service Specialist, and then I started my training.  Lots of classes about various aspects of doing the job of Information Management Specialist.

Outside of work, we are still enjoying living in the D.C. area.  We are still enjoying acting like tourists, seeing the sights, visiting the museums, and generally enjoying everything we can do down here.  Plus we have been meeting up with friends and family in the area. 

All this activity is why I have a been a little lax on the blog postings.  But now I know:  My public demands more than short Facebook status updates.  I will endeavor to do better in the future.