\tLots of people are going home. Lots and lots. Every evening at dinner, Bill and I compare information on who\u0092s the latest family to be leaving Grenoble. And the list of people staying is getting very, very small. <\/p>\n
\tSo far, we continue to be on the list of those staying. And it\u0092s starting to feel, well, lonely. Even though people are still here, waiting to be contacted by the company that handles relocation. Knowing that so many of my friends are leaving is just lonely. I already think this summer is going to be very difficult… just me and Kaitlyn in a house with some freakish attraction for wasps. <\/p>\n
\tBut it isn\u0092t just that. It isn\u0092t just looking ahead and seeing myself with a great deal more alone time. It isn\u0092t just knowing that I\u0092ll have to help Kaitlyn deal with some of her favorite friends moving away. Bill put his finger on it tonight. It\u0092s actually that I can\u0092t help but feel, well, a little jealous. Not that I envy anyone having to move. Ever. Not that we don\u0092t like living here. I wouldn\u0092t want to make it permanent, but I like it. (Well, I like it while I have friends here.) We just can\u0092t help but feel a little jealous that we aren\u0092t the ones looking at a new house, new cars, new school, new opportunities… and all in English. Yes, our turn will come. And when it does, we may realize we aren\u0092t ready for it. Or we might welcome it. But right now, it just feels really strange to be on the sidelines… watching… wondering… hoping that when we are told to go home… it\u0092s to a job… and a place we want to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lots of people are going home. Lots and lots. Every evening at dinner, Bill and I compare information on who\u0092s the latest family to be leaving Grenoble. And the list of people staying is getting very, very small. So far, we continue to be on the list of those staying. And it\u0092s starting to feel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}