This past week has just blown by. I was lucky to be able to meet up with several friends for long lunches or breakfasts. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to connect with everyone I wanted to see.
We are all packed. The boarding passes are printed out and sitting with our passports on top of a suitcase. Despite my natural desire to travel light, there was no way we were getting everything we (mostly “I”) wanted to bring into just one suitcase a piece. Everything is packed and we we have two large suitcases plus one small carry-on sized roller bag and one backpack each. Dragging all that through the airports is NOT going to be fun.
I got all signed up for the medical insurance through Fulbright and finally completed an online visa application for the Fulbright conference in India for myself. I still need to apply for visa for my family.
I emailed off a bunch of materials to the person at the Uzbek Ministry of Education who will be doing the translation for me and confirmed that someone from the Ministry will be meeting us at the airport in Tashkent and taking us out apartment hunting.
I also received a schedule of meetings with various people within the Ministry of Education with whom I will be working. I’m definitely going to have a full first week in Tashkent, and that’s not even considering the jet lag.
Thanks for reading along this far. Things should get a lot more interesting from here. My next post will be from Uzbekistan.
Stay tuned.
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