• Menu
  • Menu

Latest posts

Settling In

We are almost one week in and I’m floored by how quickly the time is going. It’s been a shockingly busy first week and I attribute that to a few things: 1. Nia’s school was already in full swing. 2. The General Services Office at the Consulate is very well run and on top...

Educational Bliss

My daughter has no idea how lucky she is. Her new school, the American School of Bombay, is the creme de la creme. Every aspect of her education has been carefully crafted and shaped around the school’s unique value system and IB learning structure. It’s not a question of...

Mumbai: Initial Impressions

We’re about 60 hours in to our stay in Mumbai and man oh man am I feeling optimistic. Jet lag’s a b*tch, as usual (it’s currently 3 AM) but even that can’t bring me down. Malawi felt so foreign at first, but here I see all sorts of similarities with our past posts...

D.C. Revisited

The Novaks are back in DC for the first time in two years. Although I’m not a big DC fan, it’s nice to come back to somewhere that’s familiar. For the first time ever we’re staying downtown, just blocks from the White House. The location is great and makes for easy...