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Sigh.

Somedays living and working overseas is great.

Somedays it's not.

Pretty much like living anywhere really.  We all have our days.

I think lately I've been jealous of my family and friends that are living Stateside.

Why?

It all has to do with being healthy really.

I'm jealous of the fact that folks can just go out for a run - really anytime of day and it's safe to do that.

Not so much here.  Why do people have to target expats for robbery when they are just wanting to go out for a nice walk or run?  (I am thankful though for a forest on the other side of town that is safe to go outside and run/walk.)

A friend mentioned taking a new class at the gym.  How fun is that?!  A new class to challenge and change things up?

My family are all doing races together.  I never thought I would be so sad to miss out on doing a race or two.

This is silly - but I wish blueberries and salmon were cheaper.  Two items I wish I could incorporate more into our meals.  But, when about 100 grams of blueberries are $8 and 1 piece of salmon is $10 - it's just not doable.

(I won't even mention how much some other things are.  Ok, I will.  Almond milk for 1 litre is around $7.)

It's just a season, I'm sure.  Expats living overseas all go through times like these.

It helps when I think of the things that I can do here that I can't do Stateside.

I think what it boils down to (at least for me right now) is that I am missing family and friends.  I long to try out some new things with friends - take a class together, go for a run outside, do races, try out a new healthy restaurant.

I think I'm getting bored a bit with the same old routine.  Yea, I change up my workouts as much as I can with different strength and resistance exercises - but I am just longing to put other things into my workouts (looking at you, biking & swimming!).

4.5 months and I can change things up for a while.  I'm looking forward to that.

I'm sure then while I'm in the States I'll be longing to come back here and get back into my "routine".

Funny how that works, eh?








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  1. Hi Sarah, just catching up on your blog. :) I hear you on this! Especially the healthy meals - it is SO frustrating looking at recipes where I don't have the majority of the ingredients. At that point, it's pretty useless. Do Kenyans generally eat healthy? Here most things are deep fried and white rice is the bulk of every meal. I get jealous of my other expat friends who at least have options (we don't have a supermarket or anything like that), but then again, I'm not tempted to buy those expensive bell peppers because they're not even available. You are such an inspiration to me! Congrats on hitting 100!

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