Moving always sucks up a lot of time and energy and perhaps not suprisingly, it takes even more time and energy in a culture where you're still adjusting and learning the ropes. The past month has basically been focused on moving here to Savar and trying to get settled in our new flat. "Trying to get settled" because we had a fair bit of work we needed to do before we could settle in. About half of the outlets didn't function. It was pretty dirty, etc. But now that we're finally here we're really glad to be here for several reasons.

Our main motivation for moving out here was to get closer to the seminary. Where we lived before was about an hour drive in the Dhaka traffic, one-way. But that was a good place to start for language learning, etc. We also wanted to come out here while we still can (we'll probably need to move back to Dhaka in a few years when Yazzie starts school) in order to get a bit more of the village feel and language practice. Even here in Savar, which is essentially the suburbs of Dhaka, it's kind of between city and village and less English is available. There's also cleaner air and more space outside. The seminary has a nice bit of grass and a small football field where kids (and adults:-) can play around. Not much of that going on in Dhaka. This flat also has a smashingly great veranda that goes basically around the entire outside of the flat. We almost always get a fabulous breeze through the house and the view out the backside is still almost entirely a view over the tropical tree tops.

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