We Have a House!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! Ben and I are in the UK visiting family before our journey of a lifetime. Everyone is very excited about us moving and are already making sure we get an extra room in our house, where-ever that is, so that we can have lots of visitors! We'll be thrilled to have people come and stay. But first, we need a house, and amazingly we've got one! For a while at least. Ben has been in contact with an ex-teacher in Phnom Penh who, while he is in the UK, has so kindly let us rent his apartment for a month or two until we find our own place! It will be all fully furnished for us, with a complete kitchen, lounge, bedroom etc. Even a bicycle for Ben to ride to work! The rent is very affordable, in a great location near markets, a hospital and Ben's school. We are very blessed to have this space and time to settle in for a while before properly looking for our own home. We have also been approved our initial visa application papers! We've been helped with these by the school, they are long term visas that will allow Ben to work and me to seek it. We will present these papers on arrival an have our passports officially visa-rized. Ben would lastly like to report that he has transitioned from a provisional to a fully registered teacher! All his paperwork has been done so that he can maintain his Australian registration while overseas, and can go straight back to teaching in Australia when we do choose to return. So although Ben and I are currently travelling the UK with family, we are constantly thinking of, praying for and preparing for the big move to Cambodia, with good news encouraging us even more that we have made the right decision!