The good news is that our second shipment is in Harare, and David’s got his residence permit to claim it. So any day now…That shipment includes some basic furnishings like a couch, chair and end table for the living room, a bed and bedside table for us, a kitchen table and two chairs, some dressers… We didn’t ship everything in storage from the States, and it looks like that was a good decision in the end since our staying in this Chisipite house (that Rob and Nadia had rented) has fallen through. The owner sold it just days before we left Amman, but we are allowed to rent it until June while we look for another place.
That means that we could potentially find a furnished or semi-furnished house which will relieve us from the financial burden of furnishing a place from top to bottom. I had been looking forward to creating a space that felt like ours and was an investment in our future, i.e. furnishings we could take with us around the world. But MC’s policy is to support shipments limited by weight instead of a container, so it’s not really feasible to plan for that anyway. It’s one of the few drawbacks of living abroad. I don’t want to sound like an unappreciative whiner…I feel lucky to be living our dream life. It’s just that when we go back to the States, the contrast in our lives and most everyone else’s there is always a bit shocking. While we’ve been flitting around here and there, they’ve grown up and moved into houses full of furniture and matching curtains.
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