We are currently sitting in the Incheon International Airport in Soeul, Korea. Our next flight is in a few hours and that is the really long one. It is currently 9:00 am here in Korea, 7:00 am in Phnom Penh on the 4th and 7:00 pm in Michigan on the 3rd. It took us so long to fly here at the beginning of our trip and because of crossing the international dateline, it doesn't take as long but in reality, it does. This is so going to mess with our internal time clocks!
Spent yesterday finishing packing and then checked out at noon. Yoen picked us up and we made it to Child Safe finally. They have a nice set up there to train the kids taken off the streets. There were job postings listed outside but we did not have the teaching credentials they were looking for. This is such a positive program and we are so glad that we have supported it.
Tried to go to a sponsored restaurant of Child Safe but there was a funeral happening right by there and we couldn't get in. The best laid plans as they say. Headed to another very nice place though. One thing we have learned in our venture here is that it takes a longer amount of time to get served your food and it doesn't come our altogether like in the states. When going out to eat, plan on a couple hours.
Yoen has not been feeling well. He has an abcess on his neck and eye. Poor guy has been miserable and we are really concerned about him. We had him drop us off at their version of a mall and told him to go rest for awhile. We killed time at the mall and had dinner there at their version of fast food.
We went to the airport around 8:30 pm. Yoen gave us letters from his boys that they had written to us. It was so sweet. Yoen had gotten word from Miss Chinda that she wanted to see us off at the airport and hug Maddie one last time. She wasn't there when we arrived so we got our bags checked in and tickets set. After that we went back outside to see Chinda and her oldest children. They had helped their Mom take care of Maddie too and were thrilled to see her. Miss Chinda gave each one of us a gift. It was so sweet of her to do. Her daughter wrote notes to both of the girls. They waved to us as we walked through the airport to the security area.
Our flight leaving was delayed due to a connection issue. We are on time now though as there was down time here at Soeul. We will be home tomorrow afternoon.
Reality is setting in as to the change in temperature. It is cool here in Soeul as it will be in Michigan. Oh how we are missing the warmth of Cambodia already!
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