They are here!!

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Wow, they are here, the packers have arrived and it's now for real, we are indeed moving and leaving HK! Our private tsunami has started! John To, this sweet and smiley Chinese man, the supervisor for our move, has named all rooms according to the way we call them, so that boxes can go to their new spots on the other side. Carlota, of course, wants to be part of everything going on in the flat and therefore wants to thoroughly participate of every box being packed... never mind, it has always been like that... the 1st day is a bit chaotic for her!!

An interesting common thing that all the countries Joel and I have moved to have: in a way, they are all "new" countries. We moved to South Africa in 1997 and dearest Nelson Mandela had been voted president just 3 years earlier, after 46 years of intense Apartheid. Then we moved to Hong Kong in the year 2000 and again, HK had been handed over to China only 3 years before we arrived and was experiencing, after a long colonial time under the Brits, the adventure from being a non colonial country to being part of blooming communist China. And now, we are moving to post war Angola, once again, a "new" country in the sense that after 27 years of war, all they want is to leave it behind and re-build their beautiful country! Must say that it's kind of exciting, not to say completely exciting to be part of a joint effort of re-building a country!

Wish us luck and may God bless us!