Dan and Em's Blog

I expect that 2012 will be a big year for us — at the very least, it’s the only full calendar year that we’ll be living abroad, which makes it pretty special.  We’re already over 1/3 of the way through our Austrian adventure, so this is going to be a big year for travel — we have four international trips tentatively planned, as well as about as many domestic trips (inside of Austria), and also one or two trips home to the US.  I’m really hoping that it works out that we’ll be able to play host to a good number of friends and family who want to come and visit, too.  (I can’t wait!)  I also really want to keep working on my German:  it would be a shame to move home after two years here and not feel like I’d at least learned enough to make myself understood.

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It’s been a big year.  This time last year, we hadn’t yet made the final decision about whether or not we were going to take this opportunity and move to Austria.  Now, here we are, we’ve been here almost 9 months, and we’re feeling relatively settled (but very homesick).

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