The end is getting awfully near. Yesterday was our last ófficial' day at work. One week today we are on a plane with one-way tickets to Sydney.
Tomorrow the movers will come and pack up all of our things - many of them amazing things that will make the journey to Sydney and remind us of what an awesome adventure we've had here - Javanese masks, Chinese porcelain lamps, a Dayak statue from Borneo, art from Vietnam and Thailand and so much more.
I was just looking back and re-reading my early posts on this blog, reliving the excitement and anticipation of when we came to Malaysia 3 years and 3 months ago - the first geko in the house, our first encounters with Asian driving, the fabulous food. It was terrific.
We are ready for something new but I'm pleased that after 9 years and counting of living abroad the excitement hasn't completely worn off. (I'm also still very aware of what a privilege it is to live abroad as we have, and how very different it is from simply travelling to places).
To live in Sydney will be a whole new kind of adventure - less exotic, and a known quantity, but that is what we are now ready for. We're ready for a place where we feel we 'belong' (Malaysia has been very good to us, but it would take many, many more years for it to truly feel like home.) For a wandering British/American couple, Australia is perhaps our ultimate half-way house.
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