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My best wishes for the holiday season!

Dear Capt. Shekhar, My best wishes for the holiday season! I’m writing to you from France, watching the sun set behind snow-capped mountains.  For the last five months, I’ve been living with my family in a small hamlet in the French Alps.  It’s a beautiful place and I’ll be sorry to say good bye when we head back to Canada in January.  For me, I will have been overseas for 15 months, first in Nigeria and now here in France.  In Nigeria, I was working as a management consultant with Manitoba Hydro International as part of the management team for the electrical Transmission Company of Nigeria.  It was a great assignment with great people and the opportunity to lead the procurement of a major ERP system. My family stayed in Canada, but we holidayed together in Punta Cana and South Africa and, after the assignment, we all met up for a few weeks in London before settling down in rural France. While here, my kids have been in the local school, learning about the intricacies of