Well, I almost made it a year without posting.
It was a tough year.
Since May 31, I've never been very clear about the day of the week. I know, it must be nice. It is.
It's been a nice almost-four-weeks here in Toronto.
We've got a place in Oshawa for August 1. It's a pretty nice, newly renovated two-bedroom in an okay neighbourhood near downtown Oshawa and the shopping mall. It's not, unfortunately, near my school, which should be about a half hour commute by bus.
No news on our stuff from Korea, though it was scheduled to arrive on the 20th.
We arrived Monday night safely.
Friday the movers came. They packed up all our stuff in about three hours. Thirty some odd boxes and pieces of furniture. The rest of the day we spent cleaning up junk that we would not be taking. Thankfully, Jackie's aunt came to take the bed, sofa, kitchen table and chairs, and a bunch of other things.
Today, we got rid of the refrigerator. The used appliance market is not big here (Koreans, as well as the Japanese, among others, do not like used things). So we convinced the used market guy to take our refrigerator, my sister-in-law's washing machine and gas range and in return move our oven and washing machine over to their house. No money exchanged hands. I guess it was an okay deal. We're just glad to be rid of it all.
Tomorrow, we'll hopefully be finished throwing out the trash and recycling.
My back hurts.
As many of you may know, I am coming home and Jackie is going to her new home to Canada.
We leave June 26. We are both very busy with the labours of moving to another country. It ain't easy. We have movers/shippers coming in tomorrow morning. By that time we have to separate EVERYTHING in our apartment into piles of things that will go on the boat and those that will not (which are then further separated into things that will be thrown out, sold, or given away).
It's very difficult to decide what is worthy of going on the boat. For example a single book, not worth more than ten, twenty dollars will take up x amount of space. Unlike the post where size and weight are equally important, here space is of the highest importance. Once cubic meter costs us nearly $200. So that book had better be damn worth it. Just like every piece of paper, CD, pen, and sock.
It's noon. I haven't started. We'll see you soon.
