Due to technical difficulties (read: someone made server changes that blocked my access and didn’t tell me), I haven’t been able to write for a while.
Nearly exactly 6 months after I left Erbil, I left Tbilisi. And then 5 days later I was back in Erbil. Hopefully I’ll be back in Tbilisi in a couple weeks.
The world seems completely different now. Or, rather, it is magnitudes worse than it was 6 months ago.
And yet, in other ways life has improved. I love my new job (even though I’m not going to be able to survive on it after the end of this year). I’m leaving Iraq with my stuff (fingers crossed). I’ll finally get back to Italy (toes crossed). And maybe I’ll see some old friends again.