April 28, 2008
Now things can get moving! I just returned from Germany. Creed is still there and will be for the rest of this week getting trained and oriented with his new job. He thinks he will enjoy it and I’m anxious to talk to him to find out all the little details of his new job. Loralee was so kind to come all the way here to watch the kids while we were gone for a week. I really couldn’t have done it without her. The kids were well taken care of and so happy when I returned. Thank you very much Loralee. We owe you the world!
After looking at several homes in the Bonn area, we finally settled on one in Villip, a small village and a 15 min. drive to the Bonn International School. It is a country house and Creed has joked that we now need to start listening to country music. We can still ride our bikes to Villip to the bakery (a must as far as I’m concerned…those of you that are familiar with European bakeries! YUM!) and it’s only around 5 minutes to the nearest shopping center area. So while we will feel as if we are in the middle of now where, we really won’t be. We laughed that I am going to the extreme because of our lack of privacy here in Jakarta, but I imagine that we will enjoy the peacefulness of it all out there with the birds chirping and the sounds of the church bells. The boys were thrilled on the space of the house and also the size of the yard along with the many forests and pathways to walk and ride bikes. The house is on the property of a castle. A couple live in the castle and rent out some homes and apartments around the large land area of the property. We met the man with his long, sleeked, silver, flowing hair, tall stature and very fashionable clothes. He looks like royalty. Those attributes got him the codename ‘The Count’ from Creed. The boys couldn’t stop laughing when I told them. Now if they just don’t slip and call him that to his face. The Count was a very kind, down to earth man and was very happy we loved the house and decided to rent it. I know we will be happy there.
We are making some sacrifices. It’s quite a long way for Creed to drive to work; 71 kilometers to be exact. Fortunately, we are just around the corner from the autobahn so it will at least be quick driving, not through the city, but still, it’s a long drive. It’s certainly farther than we go to school now seeing that we are right across the street now, but we will make it work.
Germany is beautiful and Creed and I felt somewhat at home there. We are very excited to be moving there. We were impressed with the school, although it is quite small, only 515 students from K-12 (JIS has over 2000) so that will be quite a change for the boys, but a good one I think. The school is very on top of things and we were impressed with it.
Now comes the hard part of trying to sort through everything (still) and selling things and getting things taken care of. We have lots of things going on with school this last month so it will be busy, but we are excited for this move and ready for a new chapter in our lives.
