A lonely week, not through boredom, but through a feeling of isolation, like I’ve suddenly gone deaf. I’m sure most who have ever migrated to the other side of the world, to a vastly different culture have experienced this. While Mark is at work, I spend my day wandering around alone, sometimes not even speaking. There is a sense that everything is muffled, I hear conversations but they wash over me, I haven’t a clue what anyone is saying. The first delivery to my new home wa