DCM (one person down from the Ambassador) to me: “I heard you got Moscow. Are you happy?”
Me: (does a little happy dance)
DCM: Uh, have you ever actually been to Moscow?
actually, no
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4 responses to “actually, no”
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It’s all right; it’s good to have that ‘new assignment’ blush for a while. Reality comes crashing in soon enough. Each two-year assignment is actually only one year: the first six months you’re getting used to the new place. Then you’re there for one year and you spend your last six months getting ready for the next place. It’s a rip in the time-space continuuum!
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I can relate to that opinion, my wife and her family escaped the place! But you know what things have changed, and there are so many cool things there. I’ve been asking about it, people who have been there recently, sense finding out that you’re going. The typical thing I hear is it’s dangerous; no not really, not any more than a lot of places. You can buy most anything in the stores now. The main complaint is the traffic; the city was not made for cars, and everybody has’em now. And yes it’s cold in the winter but you can deal with it. Chapter 2, let the adventure begin!
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love the skirt. What in the world are you going to do with 16 lbs of baking soda? Just how many baking soda biscuits can you make. Ha.
I’m with Stefan is there anything better for breakfast than hot cocoa and crissonts?LikeLike
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I can relate. We were very excited when we learned we got Kyiv. Who knows why? We’d never been here before. It just sounded exciting.
Now we’re excited that we just found out we got Nassau next. Never been there either, but I know they have beaches and a Johnny Rockets.LikeLike
twenty-something years of "what have you been up to?" 
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