Post Job Fair

There are several stages to this whole adventure. There's the commitment to a search organization and then researching the schools you are interested in and then prepping for the fair and then attending the fair. Then you get the job and its like an explosion of emotion and excitement. You go home, go back to work and then about a week later you think OMG this is insane!
Don't get me wrong, it's still exciting, you just start thinking about all the stuff that has to happen in the next 6 months.

We played with the idea of renting the house but the more we talked about this opportunity, the more it made sense to jump in with both feet! So with a couple of weeks we made the decision to sell everything along with the house! We sold our vehicles and all our furniture. We are keeping basically picture albums finishing rods, winter clothes ... that's about it. My principal is a real sweetheart, she has agreed to house our bedroom suite for us, in case we decide to come back.

The school I am going to ASD ( the American School of Doha ) gives a certain amount of money for shipping your stuff. No problem, its very generous. But here's where the "education" began. In order to ship by sea you need to rent a container. The smallest container is 20 ft long. Now, if you fill the container or if you only put a shoebox in the container the price is the same and that price is $13000. Which as you might expect is slightly more ( double) what the school was providing. So we thought we might bring bikes and our bedroom suite but 13 Gs was just a little too steep. So we opted for what was behind curtain #2. Air shipment! Wayyyyy!!!! more expensive but you can ship the shoe box and end up only paying for the shoebox and not the emty space around the shoebox. So we decided that we could afford to ship about 125 cu. ft of stuff. Mainly family portraits, clothes, books, guitars, hockey equipement (2 olympic size ice sheets in Doha), golf clubs.... you know, the important stuff.
Then there was our dog. Finding a home for Rosie was hard. We knew that Doha would have been simply too hot for her. But after several months, we were finally contacted by a lovely woman who was looking for a mature dog. She fell in love with Rosie and the whole family was feeling pretty good about Rosie's new home.

It was strange the way everything simply came together. We sold our tent trailer in April, van and house in June. I really started believing in that old addage that " There is a buyer out there if you are simply patient enough to wait for them to find you and knock on your door. " There is also the other thing about asking a fair price and being open to settle for maybe a little less than yoou had anticipated..