I cannot believe that it is December, yet again! It is seriously true that the older one gets, the more quickly time progresses. Getting old.......
Well, I believe it has been almost six month since my last update. This fall has been full of life changes, both good and bad. I started my first career job this past August teaching ESL in high school. I was in a very strange, very frustrating play. K and I had huge marriage problems we had to work out. Needless to say, K and I are still in the infant stage of our marriage, being still under the 2 year mark. We had a serious trial to go through in August and September, but it really caused us to become closer. We realized how much we wanted to make our marriage work and we were almost feral in protecting it. Counseling and God have been huge help factors. Let me just say to all the married people or soon to be married people out there. COMMUNICATION! Never underestimate it or take it for granted. It is most likely the single most important thing a marriage can have to make it succeed. Use it.
With the new year approaching and K and I turned 27 and 24 respectively, we are looking to this next year to be one of huge change for us both. This year is the year that I must fill out Visa forms. We have to register our marriage in Korea. We have to acquire employment overseas, sell a lot of our stuff, find a way to get our cats to Korea, travel around the US and then permanently move to the Republic of Korea by next December. It will certainly be by next December, if not sooner depending on K's graduation date. I sure would love to hear from those of you who have had to break the news to your parents that you were moving within the year, no ifs, ors, or buts. How did you do it??? I might be eating KFC from a bucket next Christmas downing exorbitant amounts of soju and pretending that I understand everything my in-laws are saying to me. This could very well be my last Christmas speaking English. say whaaaat?
Well, I believe it has been almost six month since my last update. This fall has been full of life changes, both good and bad. I started my first career job this past August teaching ESL in high school. I was in a very strange, very frustrating play. K and I had huge marriage problems we had to work out. Needless to say, K and I are still in the infant stage of our marriage, being still under the 2 year mark. We had a serious trial to go through in August and September, but it really caused us to become closer. We realized how much we wanted to make our marriage work and we were almost feral in protecting it. Counseling and God have been huge help factors. Let me just say to all the married people or soon to be married people out there. COMMUNICATION! Never underestimate it or take it for granted. It is most likely the single most important thing a marriage can have to make it succeed. Use it.
With the new year approaching and K and I turned 27 and 24 respectively, we are looking to this next year to be one of huge change for us both. This year is the year that I must fill out Visa forms. We have to register our marriage in Korea. We have to acquire employment overseas, sell a lot of our stuff, find a way to get our cats to Korea, travel around the US and then permanently move to the Republic of Korea by next December. It will certainly be by next December, if not sooner depending on K's graduation date. I sure would love to hear from those of you who have had to break the news to your parents that you were moving within the year, no ifs, ors, or buts. How did you do it??? I might be eating KFC from a bucket next Christmas downing exorbitant amounts of soju and pretending that I understand everything my in-laws are saying to me. This could very well be my last Christmas speaking English. say whaaaat?
