We never would have made it here had it not been for our devoted friends in Charlotte, and for our family in Knoxville. It would have been a physically impossible task. Within the first 48 hours of being here, we’ve found out that for getting set up, it’s the same over here! We have been enveloped by two families who knew Mike’s family from before, and they have scooped us up and begun to help us get on our feet. We’ve confiscated their car, borrowed bed linens, eaten the dinners they have brought over, depended on them for groceries, hogged their phone lines, used their kids for babysitting, and plied them for advice of all kinds. I am going to write all this down, so that I will know and remember what to do when I’ve become a seasoned Aramcon and a new family comes. Thank you, thank you, Aramco friends!
Moving here is a REALLY big transition, and I miss Charlotte a lot; but with wonderful friends like these, it makes the transition as easy as it can be. We met a family in the airport Aramco office when we arrived, and they were arriving cold – never been here before, no friends on camp, starting from scratch. We saw them in the Commissary on the second day, and they looked pretty frazzled. (Granted, I probably looked frazzled, too, but I felt much less frazzled than they looked!) What a lucky situation we have! We are well taken care of, and Mike already knows so much anyway. It’s just so much less to figure out on our own.
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