We have started our job hunt recently. Things have come about quite quickly. It seems that we may be on our way immediately after Bobby’s COS date for Aceh, Indonesia. Most people would know Aceh if anything, for the devastation it experienced after the 2004 tsunami. Bobby would be managing a team of engineers in it’s reconstruction. It is really excited, a bit nerve wrecking actually. It is all happening so quickly. He had submitted his CV for a job in Tajikistan and they replied immediately with this offer in Indonesia. I am a bit worried about exactly how conservative the people are there and how much it will affect our lives. From when Bobby was in Ambon, Indonesia a few years back he had witnessed a great deal of segregation between the sexes. The men eat first and after they all clear away, then the women are able to eat. I am worried about this because we would be living with a host family again. Except he will be off at work during the day, hopefully I would too. But then when he comes home to not even be able to sit at the table together and talk about how the day went. We will only have each other there, to think of not even being able to really socialize at home. Maybe the tsunami really changed things or perhaps we won’t be expected to practice their ways since we are foreign. I am also worried because nearly all the food is exteremely spicy and just ground black pepper can make me cry. I guess I will be quite thin after living there!
Tomorrow is another phone interview for him, so we will know more very soon!
