Happy Halloween!

As most of you know internet has been unpredictable here, but I do think at last we have a consistent connection! Yay!

On that note, we can officially tell you all Happy Halloween from across the ocean! The people here do not celebrate Halloween, so we thought we would introduce a little bit of American culture to our students. We opened up our home for two days to allow all of our students to come by and 'trick or treat.' For most of our younger students this was their first time to hear about Halloween and to get to experience anything 'trick or treating'. All of our students were fascinated with our tiny jack-o-lantern, getting to see a pumpkin used for decoration rather than an ingredient in recipes! They really enjoyed coming over and we loved having them! It was a great way to get to see our students outside of class and to give them a break from their busy schedules.

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Hello World!!!

So for a grand total of 10 minutes, we have had internet in our apartment! Yay!! For those of you who haven't heard, we have been without internet since we have been in the Blue City. We no longer have to make trips to the nearest coffee shop! We are so excited and cannot wait to get you all caught up on what we have been doing for the past 5 weeks!

Y'all will all hear from us soon!

Today is the Day!

Our bags are packed....our things are stored....and we're just about ready to hop on a plane. We'll head to Houston in a few hours to catch our 8:25 PM flight for the first leg of our journey. We'll fly out of LAX for East Asia in the early hours of the morning. We'll touch down around 4:30 Sunday afternoon, Texas time. (Which is rather early there!)

We appreciate your continued prayers. Be asking for smooth travel and a quick transition to our new location. We also ask that you'd be lifting up our transition to our apartment. We're still a little foggy on who exactly will be giving us the keys. It'll be exciting to step into our new home...we have no idea what it will be like!

In the midst of packing. Ick!

Until next time!

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog!

Our intent is that this site would allow you to keep up with what's going on in our lives. As you probably know by now, we will be heading to East Asia in late August as English teachers. Had it not been for a crazy series of events (more details to come!) we never would have considered this as a viable option. We feel strongly that this is where God is leading us, and are quite excited!

We'll try to update the blog regularly to keep you up-to-date with what we're doing. We'll also be sending out monthly email updates with specific prayer requests and highlights of each month. If you're interested in receiving these, send us an email!

Our teaching contract is for one year, but we will likely renew it for 2-3 years. This will allow us to develop deeper relationships and take advantage of language learning.

We would really appreciate your prayers as we adjust to married life and prepare for life abroad!