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So you want to be a foreign correspondent?

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Then a must-read is Bill Buford’s interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski. Bill Buford, author of “Among the Thugs” (an amazing, in-depth, first-person account about soccer thugs), spends some time talking with Kapuscinski, an amazing correspondent who, by his own count, has witnessed twenty-seven revolutions.

“A place like India wasn’t a country. Africa wasn’t a continent. They were fairy-tales. And I wanted, really, nothing more than the opportunity to see what the world was like.”
– Ryszard Kapuscinski

– s

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It’s on

Monday, May 15th, 2006

So, we’ve notified our jobs that we are leaving, we’ve bought our plane tickets, we’ve posted our apartment for sublet, I’ve set up a new bank account to ease overseas access, we’ve got our immunizations, we’ve got a blog, and we’ve begun to sort through the boxes which were thrown into the closets when we first moved in, having never been opened during the first move. I guess that means we’re going.

We leave DC on June 29th. It doesn’t sound so far away anymore and although I tell myself that we’ve got time to see all the museums that we’ve missed so far, that we’ve got time to sell our things on craigslist, that we’ve got time until we have to say our goodbyes…our time is slipping by quickly. Just thinking about the things which need to get done before we leave puts me in a panic. I’m hoping I’ll start relaxing when I board that plane at Dulles, bound for Edinburgh.

First stop – Edinburgh, Scotland

Friends of ours who we met in Japan are getting married on July 8th in Edinburgh and we will be there to cheer them on. It will be a reunion of friends and acquaintances from our years in Japan – everyone coming to Edinburgh to have another big party together. I’m looking forward to staying at our friend’s third-floor walk up (is it the fourth floor in the UK?) in an old section of Edinburgh. I remember from our last visit there that she has some rockin’ Indian take-away down the street and a really picturesque hike up the mountain out her front door. We’ll be relaxing there for a week before the wedding, so hopefully we’ll have enough time after helping prep for the wedding to go enjoy the city. I read that there is an IMAX-style movie on the geology of Scotland playing while we are there. You know I won’t be missing that!

-s

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