Hey, it rhymes!<\/p>\n
Yes, I’m going to Kiev, Ukraine, for two months – all but two days in August and all of September. I’ll return to the USA oh-so-briefly, then head back to Europe for an already-planned-and-booked vacation in Germany. So, I’ll pretty much not be in the USA for three months. <\/p>\n
I’ll be posting about the professional part of my work here<\/a>, as well as on all my various social media channels<\/a>. Here’s more about the job<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m so looking forward to getting to do this kind of work again! <\/p>\n I’m excited, I’m nervous, I’m thrilled, I’m scared – not of the political situation in Ukraine but of meeting the expectations of this job! It’s a terrific opportunity for me professionally, and I’m so lucky to have a husband who is thrilled for me to get this chance to do this work again and to visit a city we’ve both heard amazing things about.<\/p>\n It’s going to be so different than some of the other work I’ve done in other countries: I’ll get to go out to dinner at night if I want, there won’t be armed guards at the groceries, I won’t have to wear a head scarf… woot!<\/p>\n Of course, this job comes at a cost:<\/p>\n \nThat’s the cost of doing this type of short-term work overseas – it never happens at a convenient time, and you can’t anticipate it – it just happens, BOOM.<\/p>\n The worst part, though, is Delta Airlines: I already have a roundtrip ticket booked with them for Germany, for a vacation with Stefan. My Ukraine contract ends just three days before I was to arrive in Germany from the USA in October. You would think Delta would simply let me keep that ticket – already paid for – and then just not use the USA to Germany part, allowing me to simply buy a flight from Kiev to Frankfurt, and then using just the return ticket – again, it’s all already paid for. And you would be WRONG. Unless I fly out from the USA to Germany, I would pay almost $5000 for the flight back from Germany to the USA! If I don’t show up for the outbound flight, they will cancel my return ticket! So I have to fly all the way back to the USA from Ukraine, stay TWO days, and get right back on a plane for Europe. Can you believe it?!? There is no logic for this. None. None whatsoever.<\/p>\n Anyway…<\/p>\n That’s my big news. And once this job is over, I will have, at last, pulled in a yearly income in 2014 above the poverty line, for the first time since moving back to the USA in 2009! Woot! Of course, 80% of the income has been European…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, it rhymes! Yes, I’m going to Kiev, Ukraine, for two months – all but two days in August and all of September. I’ll return to the USA oh-so-briefly, then head back to Europe for an already-planned-and-booked vacation in Germany. So, I’ll pretty much not be in the USA for three months. I’ll be posting […]<\/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-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n