Ready, Set, Go!

Tomorrow is the big day!  After months of planning and thinking about this day, we cannot believe that it is finally here!  Our flight leaves at 9am tomorrow morning from Ft Wayne and we arrive in Busan at 8pm on Sunday night (Sunday at 7am Indiana time). 

These last 2 weeks or so have been full of goodbyes, and we have been so blessed to have so much support from our family, friends, and community around us.  It is very comforting to know we have people praying for us and thinking of us while we will be away.

Our bags are almost all packed, and we have used every bit of the 50 pound limit in each bag.  Let’s hope that the airports scale is close enough to ours!  It was so difficult to decide what to leave and what to pack!

This week has seemed to pass very slowly.  I (Megan) have decided that I am WAY too organized.  The average person would probably be going crazy this week packing and making several trips to the store to get something else, but because I am so organized, we did all of that last week.  So this week really has been very relaxing, and we have been able to spend a lot of good time with family and friends without being too rushed. 

We received an email from the school this week with a link to a blog that gave us all kinds of tips about living in Busan.  It also had a link to a google map that has locations of everything around us marked.  You can look at it here:   Map of Busan

The school is the first place listed on the map, and our new home, the Jugong 400 Apartments, are listed next.  You can zoom in to the street level and see what our Apartment building looks like!  That definitely got us more excited!  If you want to read some of the blog that we got in order to get an idea of some of the cultural differences, you can go here:  http://koreanewcomers.wikispaces.com/

After we arrive in Busan on Sunday, we have about a week until we have our first day of New Teacher Orientation on August 20^th.  We then have a full week of In-Service until our first day with students on August 28^th.  We have been trying to plan as much as possible for at least the first week of school, but we are really hoping those first few weeks will give us a good amount of time to feel more prepared…if that’s possible.

Thank you again for all of your support and words of encouragement.  Pray that our travels are safe, smooth, and that time will pass quickly.   Also pray that we have no complications with customs and immigration and that all of our bags arrive with us!  We will do our best to get an update posted as soon as we are settled and have internet. 

Romans 15:13    May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.