Archive for January, 2006



Immigration Process

Published on January 20, 2006

A lot of folks ask what the emigration process was like for us. The following is a timeline of events, starting with our hiring of an immigration consultant, Immigration Law Advocates, in April 2005. While we’d heard it was fairly easy to go through the emigration channels oneself, we elected to go with a consultant […]


Faith

Published on January 16, 2006

From the time we started talking about this move about a year and a half ago, the word faith has entered and remained a key concept in my vocabulary. This has been an incredible year of change for me; changes in ways that I’ve not been accustomed to. I’ve always been a person who’s made […]


It’s Coming Together

Published on January 15, 2006

The pieces are starting to fall into place. We’ve agreed upon the freight company and picked the dates we want to pack and load the container (February 21 & 22) and we’ve picked our fly-out date: February 28th. This all finally gelled when our dear friend Daniel decided when and where he wants to go […]


Purging is Fun

Published on January 10, 2006

I have spent approximately nine hours in the last two days going through my closet and file cabinet of papers and books. I have so many papers: school papers ranging from my junior college financial aid receipts to my undergrad class papers and school books to my masters program notebooks & school papers.


Emotional Yin Yang

Published on January 6, 2006

Bruce & I have been on an emotional roller coaster the past few days. Ever since our building TIC partners contacted us a few weeks ago to tell us they were leaving and we all agreed in theory it made sense to sell the building (ie, our beloved flat, our first home purchase that we’ve […]