I'm finally here.

Oh friends.
I'm writing on my blog. I really am.
I hope you will forgive me for not keeping you posted on our lives. I am hoping and assuming that you have been to sixhappyfeet.blogspot.com to get the latest news.

This last week has honestly been life changing. It started off with excitement and anxiety, moved to devastation and fear, and has become happiness and awe. Does that describe it well enough? I don't know.
As you know, we had a really, really rough start to our life in Korea. The trip was decent, but Cate slept for no more than 2 hours on our 13 hour flight, and then got seriously carsick on the bus in Seoul. It was dark, cold, we were exhausted, and no one spoke English, and we had to stay on this bus with Cate so sick. It was so awful. I felt like I was the worst mother to have brought Cate into a situation like that. I felt guilty and panicked. Our day in Seoul was restful, but our emotions were all over the place. Taking a taxi the next day made Cate carsick yet again, so our fresh start became a lapful of puke. Ugh. I honestly can't even write about the feelings I had in the next two days. It makes me feel ill.
Long story short, we were shown to our apartment and it was filthy, empty and cold. And mix that with the feelings above and it did not make for a good time. at all. I guess the furniture thing was a misunderstanding ( we're getting used to those) as I was the first foreign teacher at my school, so they weren't sure what was expected of them. That night we had to go to a big department store to find everything we needed, and Cate had now had 3 full days of basically no sleep. ohh, it was terrible. And then I was supposed to go to school the next morning, and be professional and cheery. We were pretty sure things couldn't have been worse, and I'm not kidding you, we wondered how we could get home. BUT God heard our prayers, and the rest of the story only gets better.
Last Friday we were brought furniture, nice things. We had a lot of rest, we met some foreigners that live in our building, and cleared up some other problems. I really like my school, and honestly I like it better every day. Cate is slowly falling into a bit of a routine again, and David is figuring out the role of stay at home dad, extremely nicely, I might add.
We bought some things for our apartment, some pictures, plants etc. which makes it feel so much more cozy and liveable. Of course there are things that are difficult, and not every moment is great, but all in all, it's working for us.

I walk to school every day, through throngs of children and business men, through a park with old people doing jumping jacks, and into my school yard, where english songs are playing over the intercom. I am bowed to and giggled at all day long. I am asked funny questions like " do you see polar bears?" and " what does munched mean?" ( I know, you figure those out). I eat traditional Korean food for lunch where no one speaks English, and have mastered the art of the chopstick.
I come home to my gorgeous baby girl with a smile on her face, and an amazing husband, and I feel happy. We make supper-kimchi, ramin, or we pick up food on the street. We walk by open fish tanks, fruit vendors and gigantic Samsung stores. I can honestly say our life is fascinating right now. Everything is new. If you look on a map, you will find us. In Asia. It's incredible that we are here.
I promise to post more. We are now one of millions of korean homes with internet access.

Thank you for your prayers and kind words on the other blog. Man, we know it's the only thing that carried us through those days.

Love...