Traveling

(Somehow this didn't get published...but this is supposed to be before the latest post! Blogger is in Korean and I don't know how to change it, so I am just randomly pressing buttons until it posts-ha!)

So this is our first ‘official-official’ blog entry from Korea. For those of you who haven’t heard, we have made it to Changwon after a long day and night of travelling out of Charleston. We both anticipated that the day was going to be full of emotions and confusion. We arrived at the Charleston airport with Hannah’s parents and my mom alongside and Delta giving us the proverbial middle finger with our luggage. We came around the corner to see our good friends, Beth Kay and Mark Barrett waiting on us at some random gift shop around the corner and our hearts really did melt at that time.

It takes me a long time for things to settle in; the fact that we are staying here for a year is still very hard to comprehend. I’m not very sure if it’s a male thing or not. For Hannah, it has been very real from the start about leaving her family and friends behind and the emotion that comes with that.

So, fly from Charleston to Atlanta, then to Tokyo, then to Busan, Korea. Our flight from Atlanta to Tokyo was awesome. We were blessed to have two seats in the back of the jet. I got to watch three Harry Potter movies, and three other random movies and Hannah watched like 76 episodes of Glee (it was a 14 hour flight). We arrived in Tokyo and we were both incredibly tired. I did not sleep at all on the flight and Hannah was in and out.

So, we are arrive at the Tokyo airport and are like the walking dead. We find our gate and sit down and both fall asleep for a few hours. Well, of course, we both slept through our dozen or so boarding announcements and by the time we were jolted up by a flight attendant the entire flight had boarded (thank God for nice Japanese ladies) so we had to rush to board the flight, thankfully we made it. 

Fast forward a few hours and there we were, walking through the gate in Busan (about 40 minutes outside of Changwon) being greeted by our director. We were shocked by the fact that she hugged us immediately! It was nice to see a friendly face. She drove us back to our apartment. We were anxious about what this apartment would be like and prayed it would be bigger than a cardboard box. We couldn’t believe how nice it was once we opened the door.  High ceilings, a loft space, kitchenette, all overlooking the city of neon lights on the penthouse suite of the 18^th floor of the apartment. We were blown away by how awesome it was!  Thanks for your prayers friends. More to come.