Major life events:
- Remodel a kitchen, because you are going to live in that house forever
- Leave a job, say farewells, pack up your office.
- Get a new job with people who all speak English as a Second Language
- Stop traveling to Dothan and Tuscaloosa and start going to China and Thailand
- Sell your home of two+ decades. Quickly. With very little notice. Leave your beautiful kitchen
- Pack and Move e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g you own – after you SORT EVERYTHING into “Stay” and “Go.” Realize that you could have become a Horder.
- Sell your car that you love – to a Georgia Bulldog, no less (GO JACKETS!)
- Pack your suitcases for a 6-8 week stay in multiple places with limited laundry facilities
- Get work visas from the French Embassy in Atlanta.
- Learn a foreign language in an intense one-on-one class for hours every day with an instructor. Have homework, too, at age 55+.
- Move across an ocean to a foreign country
- Be completely open to wherever you are going to find an apartment in a new foreign urban city – knowing that the apartments are ALL tee-ninte-sy (sized for small children)
- Be prepared to share one small car, no garage, walk for groceries, pay $5/ gallon for gas, and use stairs a lot
- Don’t know when you are leaving, with five suitcases, no plane tickets yet, and not sure where you are sleeping tomorrow night.
- New opportunities, new adventures, and a whole lot of UNKNOWNS
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