But what do you 'do'?

Other than learning a whole new language, fitting into a team, building a sports ministry, going to church, befriending locals and chatting to traffic cops?

Well, I'm the IT manager for our field and my wife is the finance manager. Fortunately, because there are only about 70 people in our field it only takes us about 10 hours a week to get the job done.

Kate does what you’d expect - spreadsheets, money, budgets, meetings, inputting figures, making things balance... all very lovely for someone with a ‘completer-finisher’ mindset - especially in comparison to the never ending process of learning a language!

My job is a little more varied with training, problem solving, buying, advising, improving, fixing… I respond to ‘where did my document go?’, ‘the office electricity keeps tripping, what can we do?’ and ‘I need a Laptop with WiFi that has secure drives and can connect using a VPN over ADSL so I can upload to YouTube’ all in a single day! Try saying all that to the Russian guys in the computer shop when your Russian vocab consists of ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘yes’ and ‘no’!