We will be posted to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan in June of 2012. In preparation for Brandon's Pol/Econ job, we'll be spending ten months back in DC so that Brandon can learn Azeri, a very useful language that we'll have the opportunity to utilize for many more posts to come.
When we put together our bid list, it was rearranged several times due to positions closing and timing constraints and somehow Baku ended up as our third choice, preceded by Tashkent and Tallin. Brandon and I were both excited about Tashkent and Tallin looked interesting (although cold), but neither of us invested much in Baku. My main associations with Baku were the BTC pipeline, James Bond, and major industrial pollution.
So when we were assigned to Baku, I was very surprised but somehow I suspected we would end up being sent to the one place neither of us cared that much about. After some researching and blog-stalking, however, I've gotten if not excited, at least anticipatory about the change. We have a fairly good chance to have a house, and Brandon is especially looking forward to snow and mountains.
Regardless of our feelings, that's where we will be living for two years because that's what the Foreign Service requires. And I suppose one reason is as good as another.
8 comments:
Congratulations...I think! 10 months in DC sounds nice though!
Well, at least when you connect through Frankfurt, you'll have coats for the kids with you. . . And we'll try not to total the van in the next nine months.
Yessssssss!! I am so excited for you! I can't wait to tell Jeremy that we're going to go on vacation to Azerbaijan in two years. He will be thrilled.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!! We are excited for you ane now can get to know another part of the world through you.
Hello there! My name is Melissa and I went to school with your husband. Well, I was a couple of years older than he was. I found your blog off of his sister Aimee's blog - hope you don't mind.
Congrats on your upcoming assignment. My hubby works for the same agency yours does but is an ARSO. We are currently in Jerusalem and just arrived a few months ago. We are enjoying the Middle East and all the craziness it has to offer. I have enjoyed backreading your blog and it is fun to get to "know" you - our neighbors.
Congratulations! I hope the anticipation turns into true excitement. I admit my world geography isn't what it should be so I had to look up this place. I think it sounds exciting! Any idea yet what the church is like there? Good luck to you!
That's so exciting, guys! Congratulations!
It looks like a relatively temperate country. Average summer is high is only 87, and the low was barely below freezing. And its on the Caspian Sea. Sounds nice to me.
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