Many of m8bet sports betting have recently left your home in the United States to teach abroad. Some of m8bet sports betting may have your worldly possessions now in storage or in your childhood bedroom at your parents’ house. Others have closed up your own home or prepared it for renters or house sitters.
This year we were not on the move, but I can’t help but think back over some of our previous m8bet sports betting adventures and misadventures. During the twenty years we have been in the international teaching market, we have been the happy owners of a 260 year old country home. We knew early on that we wanted it as our home base not only for us but also for our children so that they would always have a sense of belonging and stability.
In the dozen or so times we have left our home to teach internationally, we have streamlined our pre-m8bet sports betting routines and perhaps have learned a few things as a result of previous mishaps, but there are some things that are just out of one’s control and always seem to occur when one’s life-changing, stressful, exciting m8bet sports betting is imminent, which leads to:
» A flooded basement on the morning of your m8bet sports betting (details I will leave to your imagination)
» m8bet sports betting realize that m8bet sports betting are going to have to take some last minute preventative measures against your pipes freezing during the winter. This entails a trip to the closest hardware store (15 miles away) for the needed supplies, crawling under the porch to wrap the pipes with heat tape, and finally unpacking one of the bags to find other appropriate traveling clothes as the others are now covered with dirt and grease.
» A quick trip to the local emergency room (again about 15 miles away) to address the allergic reaction to a bee sting while completing the last minute yard work.
» m8bet sports betting almost cut your thumb off, cutting the last bagel m8bet sports betting’ll have for the next ten months and have to travel with it all bandaged up.
» A stray cat has a litter of kittens in a near-impossible-to-reach crawlspace below the kitchen and m8bet sports betting are about to close up your house for the next ten months. The local “humane” society is cranky about taking on a litter of six newborn kittens but threatens to call the police on m8bet sports betting if m8bet sports betting leave them in a box out on the porch. They finally agree to take them in exchange for a donation which of course we can easily afford since, in their view, we are embarking on an irresponsible and luxurious “vacation” down in South America.
» After setting off the highly toxic “bomb” (to kill off bugs and spiders etc… inside the house – not very environmentally friendly but helps when m8bet sports betting are leaving a very old house uninhabited for months) and have everyone and their luggage out of the house, m8bet sports betting realize m8bet sports betting forgot something inside. Next, m8bet sports betting find out the country m8bet sports betting are headed to has been invaded and m8bet sports betting realize m8bet sports betting are not leaving home after all.
Once m8bet sports betting are actually on your way to the airport, m8bet sports betting might think m8bet sports betting can relax a bit, however …
»m8bet sports betting run out of gas on the way to the airport (good one, huh?) We were actually selling our car at the bus station and so had to drive it there, sign over the car, transfer all our baggage to the bus which took us to another bus that we took to the airport.
» Getting to the airport (four hours away), waiting in the check-in line with all your baggage (did we really need to bring all this stuff??) only to be told that someone had cancelled your reservation. The airline could get us as far as London but then we would have to be on standby for the next leg of the journey. Hmmm. Not an auspicious start. Yes, we threw caution to the wind and headed for London (with our house rented and our car sold, it seemed like the thing to do). And, yes, we did eventually make it on to our final destination following a few unexpected days in London.
Once you are airborne, you are sure that all is well, all details of home and m8bet sports betting have been taken care of but…
» m8bet sports betting realize at 3,000 feet that m8bet sports betting forgot to turn on the dishwasher after getting all those last minute dishes into it. (yuck!)
» Did we put the garbage out?
» I thought m8bet sports betting cancelled the newspaper subscription!
» With about 12 more in-flight hours to go, m8bet sports betting come to the unfortunate conclusion that your two year old daughter is the one in a million exception to the “Benedryl will help your child sleep on the airplane” rule, as m8bet sports betting walk with her (while also holding your sleeping one year old) up and down the aisles of the plane.
And, once m8bet sports betting safely reach your destination, m8bet sports betting’re ready to just get into your new school- provided housing and crash, but…
» Your school contact hands m8bet sports betting a fax from your realtor saying that your renters have backed out of the lease agreement.
» m8bet sports betting are informed that m8bet sports betting will have a half an hour to “settle in” and then m8bet sports betting are to meet your fellow new colleagues back at the school for an informational meeting..
» Wow, this ought to be fun, with two exhausted children too young to be left alone in their new apartment. On the flip side, in another country, we were picked up at the airport, driven to our apartment which was fully stocked with every food and household item m8bet sports betting could think of (except the much needed cold beer), given a substantial amount of cash and told that someone would come back for us in three days after we had had time to rest!
» Your new school’s health insurance plan that m8bet sports betting so carefully researched prior to accepting your new position has been altered to specifically exclude the specific coverage m8bet sports betting were counting on.
» m8bet sports betting discover, much to your chagrin, that the school site blueprints that m8bet sports betting were shown during your interview have not been realized in actuality and that m8bet sports betting will be teaching out of the other half of your residential duplex which also isn’t fully constructed upon your arrival.
Yes! Every international m8bet sports betting and every arrival is full of adventures and surprises. While they can seem overwhelming at the time, they can also lead to a lot of laughs down the road. Things usually work out one way or another and can tend to bring people together in ways that just don’t seem to happen back home. Perhaps this is one of the reasons, many of us just keep coming back for more.
