It was just 6 months ago when Kyle and I became husband and wife, and after a superb honeymoon, unpacked our belongings and wedding presents into our small Weltevreden Park townhouse. In those 6 months we've worked tirelessly to make it a beautiful home. Kyle build steps, installed a garage door, lay new grass down, paved and build an awning. I dug up and replanted the garden, bought the furniture and made the artwork that later hung on our freshly painted walls.
All this attachment and attention to our new 'baby' made this past week of packing up everything we own very traumatic. We sold our practically brand new furniture and are storing our wedding gifts in well wrapped boxes lined with Epsom salts and cloves. We handed over our coveted house keys this past weekend, to tenants who promise they will look after the place as if it were their own...and all this for the sake of an adventure. For the chance at doing something extraordinary with our lives.
We've started living out of our suitcases with just under a month left before we board the plane to Beijing. What awaits us there only time will tell, but in the meantime we're living under the wonderful hospitality of my parents who I'm going to miss dearly.
We're preparing ourselves to say goodbye to family, culture and the life to which we've become accustomed, and set off with just each other and 2 series' of Grey's Anatomy to get us by.
We've had so much advice thrown at us by the China 'experts', those who expect us to eat dog for breakfast and worry we won't last the month of August. But we're determined to silence the critics, take the bull by the horns and seize the day! 27 days and counting...just watch this space...
