David called to report the latest from his "talks" in Detroit. He is at "Great Lakes Lodge" which used to be known as "Visteon Village", the huge North American Headquarters for his company. It has now been reduced to one building with the others leased out to other large corporations. That's what bankruptcy will do to a company that once had on site dry cleaning, sushi chef, coffee shop... David said it's like a ghost town, with more empty cubicles than occupied.
The job in Brazil sounds as if it is still a possibility. I'm sure we're facing a few weeks of waiting to hear their final decision. Most importantly, David sounds excited about what the job entails. Whoever gets it will have hiring to do right off the bat. I told David that the first hire he should make was an interpreter. It's hard enough to find good help when you speak the same language.
The difficult part for me is all the unknowns. Never having a foreign assignment before, we don't the first thing about preparing our family for this type of move. Worse is that we don't know how we will live in Brazil. Will his company provide tuition for school, an adequate or generous living allowance, are we expected to employ domestic help? If need be, who will help us negotiate all these things? Not to mention learning Portuguese. I'm such a planner that I'm devising a plan for what I might need to plan.
Oh well... when David asked what I thought of all this last night, I told him I was ready.
I cut all the backs out of my bikini bottoms and threw the tops away. How much more ready for Brazil can you get?
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