Whispering and Wondering

There’s a lot of waiting and wondering in Expat life. Rumors and whispers and and emails that you read, and re-read a million times in hopes that you can discover some hidden meaning, or decode a implied message. Maybe he knows where we’re going? Maybe she’s heard? Maybe that call to a co-worker, asking after us, is a sign. Is that off-colour joke holding a cryptic message? 

You hear something, and your heat starts racing, and you begin imagining newness, and envisioned tropical heat warms your toes for the first time in a week. Mangos and rice and banana leaves flash. Dirt and pollution and stinky canals. Tuck tucks, getting lost, and forgetting the word for “thank you”. Beaches, apartment hunting, redecorating.

I’ve been dreaming of tropical locals this week. Checking expat forums, wondering what life is like over there. In that place that I can’t name because it’s probably just a rumor or a coincidence or just a funny and completely irrelevant tidbit that falls thoughtlessly off someone’s tongue. 

We’ll be the last to know where were going and when we’ll be going there. We won’t hear anything about our move until it’s upon us, and the it’ll be a thrilling flurry of quotes from moving companies, cat paperwork, last minute shopping, boxes, and critical decisions about what goes by air and what by sea. Just help me cross my fingers that wherever it may be it’ll be warm and there will be friends for me to meet. 

Comments

[Heidi /I'm with Leia]

Oh this is so exciting - my fingers are crossed - at the moment I wish I lived somewhere less windy - I don't mind the cold but the winds are killing me. Good luck and hope you'll have a super weekend.

[Kate]

I vote for maldives. Then I'm def coming to visit :)

[Sandra Kohlmann]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and I'll even throw a few prayers in there, too! And I promise that as long as you keep writing on this blog, you'll have friends, wherever you go!

[Kelli at Little Lovely]

So jealous. I desperately want to move somewhere WARM! Crossing my fingers for you!

[Greta]

Just came back from Boracay - mangoes and fresh lobster and beautiful sunsets. Hope you get a good post - you've been in my thoughts lately too! I'm posting photos from the Philippines over the next couple of weeks as well. Take a mini-break and surf on over! Shanghai is very, very cold now.