Getting Ready

So my family and I are still in the United States and are preparing ourselves to travel and live in Slavutych‎ Chernihivs'ka oblast, Ukraine.

What does one do when they are preparing for a trip aboard and living in a land where you don't know the language. I don't really know. You take the essentials and if you have two young girls like myself you take the necessary items they will need to make life easier for them and to begin educating them at home.

The first problem I have encountered is finding out information about this former Soviet town. I have been so trained as a westerner to believe that every town and country has Realtors and they would have a website with all the available properties and schools. No, not true. Even though this town was developed in 1987 there is nothing known about it on the world wide web except its very limited history.

So what is your plan you may ask? The answer is simple, document our existence and share it with everyone else. Others plan to come and help with clean up so why not make information available to them.

I have a mission and time and hopefully an open enough mind to create the perfect travel log for someone moving with a family to have enough information that they feel a weebit in control.

To all my friends who may follow this adventure, being in control for me will be interesting.