Blessing in Disguise…???

Well, within hours of being in Korea, Matt found out and one other lady were being transferred to Camp Humphrey's already. I dunno if it's a blessing or not, but after doing some research, it seems like it could be. It just added to the rest of the summer and nothing going as it seems it should. Oh well, I guess….such is life!

So, instead of staying upset at all of the changes and lack of any information, ever, this summer, I decided to start looking things up. First I checked on post housing. The waiting list for pretty much everyone is 6-12 months. So, that took me off post since that seems to be the only option. In Seoul, I didn't really want to live off post because it's so big and I figured our social circle wouldn't go much beyond church. I wanted to have a more diverse social circle and it seemed on post would be the way to go. The housing seemed better as well as it was less high rise and more "house" style housing.

In Pyeongteak it seems the opposite. On post housing are high rise apartments and it seemed easier to find small apartment buildings and houses. So, naturally, I thought off post seemed better. I still do. It's a smaller city and there seems to be more pros than cons to living off post. I found a site that seemed to cater to off post housing and the rentals they post all seem ah-ma-zing!!! I was getting really excited. Then I looked up our OHA (overseas housing allowance) and it is nothing close to what they are charging for rent there. Everything is about $3000/month that I was looking at. I thought it was great because our allowance in Seoul would've been $3500. Nope, not here. The housing allowance calculator told me we get $1407/month. That will only afford crap from what I see. SO, with that said, I hope my husband gets better news about housing and that we actually get more than that. We'd get more than that anywhere in the U.S. I feel like. So, that was a bummer to see and kind of made me not look so forward to it.

Then, there was the pre school issue. I already had Harper signed up and enrolled in pre-k up in Seoul. We were both excited for it. I had to un enroll her today and start a new search. I found a blog right here http://sokoloco.blogspot.com/2013/02/korean-preschool.html that had a great post about an english/korean preschool right off post. It didn't seem to workout for her son, but it is my only option for Harper it seems. She is 6 days too young for the pre school on post. This school doesn't have a site or anything, so I have to wait to check it out until we get there.

Now, what we thought we had figured out just seems like a big mess again. In my mind though, I feel like I shouldn't expect it to go any other way though. Nothing has gone right for us this summer concerning our family or our move. Why should it start now? Well, it'll eventually start as soon as we find out we are getting command sponsorship. I hope that doesn't go south. I'm kind of scared now that it will. I don't have much faith in this whole process anymore but I refuse to lose hope.