Once again, I am on the move. The time is approaching fast and in a couple of weeks I will be leaving Haifa and the Baha’i World Centre to start a new chapter by getting married and moving to Seattle, USA.

Getting up and leaving a place that you have lived in is usually hard. You give up being (at least) geographically close to the friends you have made, some of the habits you have developed for that place that you enjoy, the restaurants you have come to like and dislike, the food that is local and won’t taste the same outside and so many other small details of life that you won’t even know you will be missing until you leave the place, some of these small things being things that might even annoy you from time to time.

Having moved and lived in six countries, I feel somewhat experienced in handling most of these things and the feelings that follow them. But this time around I feel completely unexperienced and unprotected to deal with them. The reason for this being, I am leaving the Baha’i Holy places and Shrines, my spiritual home on this planet and that is not an easy thing to do.

The excitement of getting married and having that to look forward to helps a lot. The fact that everything is completely new, new people, new friends, new culture, customs, you get the idea… so I try not to think about leaving too much and try to make the best of the remaining two-three weeks that I have left. In the meanwhile I am trying to also learn about things that I will need to attend to once in my new country by finding different sites, e.g. for finding flats, best cell plans and so on. If you are from the Seattle area and have good websites to share that make life easier, please let me know.