Settling into a new city is difficult enough without the added burden of a pandemic. But there is comfort in the thought that this city-state puts safety and cooperation first Stock up on hand sanitizers.
And face masks," my friend Dipika advises. I zip up our suitcases on 3 February, stuffed to the brim with protective gear ordered off Amazon, feeling like an acutely neurotic germophobe.
Not realizing that in a few weeks I will discover the first mask I was compelled to travel with, crushed yet resolute at the bottom of a bag, and look at it like an old friend. “Oh hello there.
You were my first. We meet again." Moving countries with 20-month-old twins is challenging under the best of circumstances, never mind with a mutant virus looming.