Departure Date

Rumour has it that we have a travel itinerary. I only know this from checking my email earlier today and finding an email from Andrew to the Administrative Assistant of South Saigon International School (SSIS). I don't actually know the dates, but apparently our plane lands in Ho Chi Minh City at 10:20 pm. In prior years, Andrew has discovered that a school administrator has met each new arriving teacher at the airport and escorted them to an hotel. Andrew wanted to know if this is still the case. Apparently, policies have changed at SSIS over the past couple of years. We have emailed back-and-forth with a few teachers there. One who arrived with her family three years ago moved right into a school-sponsored apartment. The next year that changed and now there is a stipend given and the teacher's find their own housing. We still don't know to what extent there is any helping from the school to accomplish this. I remain hopeful that they offer referrals to known housing agents. I am imagining our first days in Vietnam - four bedraggled, jet-lagged country Westerners wandering around (big) Ho Chi Minh City trudging in and out of apartments all day. The kids will love that!

Meanwhile, each day that goes by that I haven't sold something, I get a little more anxious. Breathing, breathing, breathing......