Moving Week & 1/2

Wow, it is Sunday night here and I can not believe that I am sitting in a new apartment and will be going to work to teach at a new school tomorrow. It has been a long and very heavy week. Let me fill you in on the details since I have last written.

September 28
Field Day, playing and having fun with elementary students all day. A pretty bad cough for me begins and I feel very ready to come home.

September 29
A half of day with a teachers training, which was a place I met the Risen Christ. And then packing up of classrooms. Lost internet access due to getting ready for move.

September 30
Helped Ben & Norma with move by watching the baby all day long. Then that night, at Wilson's, I was able to gain some strength by two phone conversations with some very special people back in Colorado. (With plans of calling a few others for Birthdays later in the week, sorry Daddy and DD that I did not get this opportunity-again due to the move). Cough moving its way from my throat to my chest.

October 1
Church was awesome, I have found a place to meet the Risen Christ with others. I also made some new friends and now know one of the places I will be traveling to over Christmas Break. After Christmas I will be going to Bali, where I will be before 12-25 is still yet to be determined. By this night my cough is getting worse, it is almost as bad as it was when I went to the Ukraine and got an upper respiratory infection. I have a fever as well. Praise Jesus that Wilson and Gretchen took care of me.

October 2
I felt so bad and really under the weather that it was hard to make it up to the school by 7:30 am. However, once up there we waited and realized that there was not much we could do to help the movers anyway. My cough was really bad by now and I still had a fever, so I went home and slept (well tried to sleep) most of the rest of the day I was at least in bed. This night, I did begin to pack for my apartment move scheduled for the 4th.

October 3
A few of us went to the new apartments to clean them together for each other. Mine was the worst, nothing had been done to it at all and we did not get it finished by the time we were suppose to be up to the new school to show the movers where we wanted things. But I did get to see Christ moving and working, seeing Wilson in the home He has provided was such a blessing and the highlight of the week. My stuff was already in my classroom, therefore, I just moved the furniture where I wanted it and then the movers could empty the boxes and put things where they got them from (which is what was suppose to happen, which did not by the way). We went home and went to 'Carefour' to get some things we knew we would need at our new places with the move and separation of some of us (like me and my roommate)and finished packing. Tuesday is usually my only night of the week I sleep through, but this was not the case this week. I don't think I slept at all. My cough and my whole body are now feeling extremely bad. I haven't felt this sick in a long time and yet there is so much to do.

October 4
We were told that the movers would be there between 7-8am, so we were up and ready and waited until 9am when they arrived and began. Wow, I have never really seen moving this way before. They packed things up for you and everything. We had to be there, so we watched and waited. All week I have felt like it was wasting time, I have never sat and waited so much in my life at one time. I could have been over at the new place cleaning, since I did nothing but a little directing of things that were going to my place that had not been in my room. The movers moved 4 old apartments into 5 new ones. This all started at 9am and I was the last to be moved in completely around 5pm. A very long day, my place was still not cleaned. And by now I can barely talked since my cough was so bad. They did come right away and hooked up internet in the girls apartment upstairs, which we are sharing to save money since we all are using wireless. However, the connection works for them but not me. I was disappointed because I really wanted to send ecards on Birthdays.

October 5
I spent the day helping Glauce clean her place and move her things in to her place and then finally finished cleaning my place and putting things up. I chose not to do anything in my classroom but, I had gone up to school to see the biggest mess I have ever seen and found that all the things in my classroom had been moved to the middle of the room and that the boxes were emptied and their contents placed also in the middle of floor. Lorin, the computer guru came by my apartment to fix the internet problem he got online, but some how that night it was lost again. This crushed me because it was my Dad's Birthday and all I wanted to do was send a card for him to receive when he got up. I had been so excited in the afternoon, but my hopes were crushed. Hard again, because I was really unable to use my voice and by now began to cough up junk. I cried and decided to take some Benadryl. These two things combined wiped me out and I actually slept very hard and throughout the night (which I haven't done all week).

October 6
I slept until God woke me up and then went to Wilson's for coffee with a few others before we ventured up to school to finally set our classrooms up. It is now Friday and the official 'Chusok' Holiday. My Korean neighbors even brought by this sweet rice drink and some pastries. I have no idea how this school will be ready for classes on Monday. I spent all day cleaning and arranging, and truthfully it is still not all together and ready. I figure my students can help to finish it on Monday. I don't plan on going back up there at all this weekend, I need some rest. Coughing up things still and really feeling more worn down and beaten up than I ever have.

October 7
A few of us girls got up and went to 'Emart' to get the things we NEEDED for our places. I have nothing really. I didn't get things that I wanted, only what I needed to live with. I also got the cheapest things. I spent about 2000,000 won (which is about $200, I still really have nothing though). I then spent the afternoon resting, didn't even put things away from 'Emart'. I was finally connected to the internet so I got to communicate with a couple of people as well. And check all the emails I had received throughout the week. I tried to take a Benadryl in order to be knocked out again like the other night, but this did not work. I went with Wilson to get some water and we had dinner. I came home and went to bed at 7pm. However, I never really slept more than an hour or two at one time and then was up for at least an hour. Also, something very dark and spiritual happened this night. I began praising Jesus and quoting scripture, I also got online to see if anyone was there. It was 11:30pm here. I was able to talk to a friend for a little bit and sent out an email. Then spent the rest of the night the same way I spent the beginning of it, until 10am the next morning.

October 8
Church was awesome again. I met a very nice family who invited me to come and have dinner or a movie on base with them sometime. I am still coughing up things, but met God in a big way this morning. It was a reminder that God has big things planned and He has called me here to be a part of what is ahead. I don't think Seoul is really it, but that North Korea and Northeast China will play a part in the future. That is really all I can say about it. I spent the rest of this day resting in Him. I do feel better at the moment. My cough isn't as bad as it has been. But I do think it is now time to shut down and get some sleep. Tomorrow will be an interesting day. Plus, I just realized I have forgotten to mention that I have had NO hot water either, since moving to new place.

Pray for us here. I know that I need strength. It is a very dark place, and yet I feel as though God is really getting ready to do something big. Yes, I even got this same message at church today. God is great all the time.