what kind of person am i?

as a general rule i am a VERY cautious person. i LOVE change, but you have to give me a couple of years to gear up for it and plan for it :-p (i have these two personalities raging within me, its kind of fun :-p )

a very wise person in tovas an my life said that our personalities are the type were God has to make us change things in our lives cause we both like our routines and dont like change.

us moving to korea is one of those things. i needed to get in a different career field, and financialy it was pretty rough going for us.

many of our major moves have happened because of outside forces forcing us to make a move.

many people from different circles in our lives have told us that they were surprised that we actually moved to korea because they "would never picture us doing something like this"

so put those thoughts aside and move on to the past couple of weeks

over the past two weeks tova and i have had a chance to hang around a lot of fellow foreigners.
we do not have too much physical interaction with the foreigners for a variety of reasons so it was nice to be able to meet some people in the same boat as us.

in talking to them it made me realize what a different life tova and i are living compared to some other foreigners. it was interesting to hear some stories

one person hopped on a bus and got off at a random stop and had to find their way back home.
some one else talked about hiking up the mountain and spending the night in a tent
another story was of ordering some interesting food off a menu.

its funny cause even though we are living in another country tova and i are still our same selves in a lot of ways.

when we order pizza we go for pepperoni, and thats all
we dont visit too many different restaraunts cause we want to know what we are ordering when we order it.
we hike up mountains, but we havent spend the night in a tent etc. . .

i have made the comment to tova that "we are the worst people ever to be living in another country" and to a certain extent its true. we like understanding whats going on around us etc
but on the other end this is definitley the best situation for us, and the best decision we have made in our young marriage.

we have had to deal with some things that might seem trivial but they stretch you.
for example, having almost EVERYONE staring at you as you walk down the street cause you look very different from everyone else. its not a racist thing, its just people are genuinley curious.
also, its helped us get be used to the unexpected. its very common for classes to be canceled last minute, or to be added last minute. its very normal for someone to tell us that we need to pay 100 bucks that day, and also to be told that in 5 minutes you need to go to a teachers "meeting" and stay out with the teachers until very late.

so, in hearing their stories i wonder what kind of person am i? am i the crazy type of person who would move to another country (which everyone tells me i am not, and i dont think i am like that), or am i still the same cautious person that i believe i am, or am i somewhere in between. i think its a cautious person with a hint of crazy :-p

its always a learning experience, every day, every minute living in korea

thanks for reading another post. and to leave you with probably the most popular pizza in korea:
its wedges of potato, ham, bacon, mushrooms, and sourcream. actually pretty tasty, and one of those things that we went out on a ledge and ordered without knowing how it would turn out :-)see we are going out on a ledge :-p . . . sometimes