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Category Archives: Foreign Service

Two Months

January.7.2013by Kim Connally 3 Comments

We are at the 8 week mark. 8 weeks from this morning we will no longer be living in Cameroon. I’m going back and forth on my feelings about this […]

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Cameroon, Family, Foreign Service, Friends, Home

manila?

March.14.2012by Kim Connally 14 Comments

We were told yesterday that we will be heading to Manila next June for our second post. I don’t really want to get into all the reasons we are not […]

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Bid List, Foreign Service, Home

bidding season round two

February.18.2012by Kim Connally Leave a comment

We received our bid list this week. It’s been an up and down ride since printing the list. Patrick’s working a management job now and it’s our first tour. So […]

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Bid List, Foreign Service

55 days…

May.24.2011by Kim Connally 1 Comment

We have been in Yaounde for 55 days now. That may not seem like a long time to many of you but to us it feels like a lifetime. Have […]

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Cameroon, Foreign Service

HHE

May.18.2011by Kim Connally 5 Comments

Last Tuesday our HHE arrived!  It came in two days in 9 crates! Some small and some big. There is still one more crate coming with stuff from Walla Walla. […]

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Foreign Service, Home

UAB, curtains and the zoo

April.20.2011by Kim Connally 5 Comments

Our UAB came on Friday at noon. We had known for a week that it was in Africa, in Nirobi to be exact, yet it hadn’t come here. Because the […]

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Cameroon, Foreign Service, Sewing and Such

living out of our suitcase… part deux… oh and we are home!

April.6.2011by Kim Connally Leave a comment

We arrived in Yaounde to an amazing greeting by a man who works at the embassy. He said, “Welcome to Cameroon!”, took our baby who was in her car seat […]

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Cameroon, Foreign Service

living out of our suitcases… part un

April.4.2011by Kim Connally Leave a comment

After pack out we went directly to our hotel where my wonderful mother in law was with our beautiful daughter who we hadn’t seen all day. No offense at all, […]

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Foreign Service, Travel

pre pack out and pack out

April.4.2011by Kim Connally Leave a comment

I wrote this during the week of March 16th – March 24th.  I waited to post it until we arrived at post because there were too many other things to […]

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Foreign Service, preparation for tour

look what mr. fedex brought today

February.24.2011by Kim Connally 1 Comment
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Cameroon, Foreign Service

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Welcome

I wasn't sold on this name for my blog. After all, I'm much more than just a diplomat's wife. However, Patrick's desire to be a diplomat is the reason we have been living the way we have been for the past 5 years; the reason we left all our family and friends on the west coast for Patrick to attend grad school to prepare for the Foreign Service Exam. He passed in January of 2010 and started A-100 in September. In March 2011 we left for our first post, Yaounde Cameroon, life has not been the same since. In this blog I will attempt to provide you with some insight into our lives that will, hopefully, make you realize that the world is a huge place with lots of people who need to be loved and cared for. But even in it hugeness we can still make a difference by loving our families and neighbors whether you're a diplomat's wife, a housewife in little Walla Walla or an executive in Washington.

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Currently Living

Geneva, Switzerland (September 2015 - 2018)

Previous Posts:

Manila, Philippines June 2013 - May 2015 Yaounde, Cameroon March 2011 - March 2013

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