We have now been in Bali for one week and it feels like a lot longer than that. The first couple of days were filled with the feeling of overload, so much newness to take in and so little knowledge about how things worked. We had yet to meet other families and were parenting 24/7 with little time to figure out how to get things done. Now that school has started and we are starting to settle into life here, it feels less overwhelming now than it did just 3 days ago.
Living the expat life has been a trip. The shared common experience seems to bring people together very fast and people put all their cards on the table. We have already been invited to dinner at a friend's house, are planning weekends away and one of Owen's friends already wants a sleep over. So far we have been hanging out the most with a family from Mendocino that just moved here after selling the bed and breakfast that they owned there, a family from Bend, OR who have been here for 2.5 years and the dad works at the school and a family from El Cerrito who have been her for 2 months. We have also met families from England, Australia, DC, Moscow and more. Many of the families at the Green School have lived elsewhere in Asia before coming to Bali and are familiar with the life of an expat that is unfolding for us.
Our neighbor is Paul, a Canadian who lived in the house we are staying in for 7 months before building his own place next door. He was the one who set up the wifi for us, introduced us to who he claims is the best masseuse in Bali and who let us babysit Abby, his dog this evening to give the boys a dog fix since they have been missing Luna.
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