Our house is the second big thing we have to give up to join the Foreign Service. A few posts back we told about our first sacrifice, our boat. It is hard to give it up. We have lived here 5 years, longer than any other home our whole married life. Here is what we added while we were here: whole new kitchen & appliances, 2 new bathrooms, all new plumbing, tankless hot water heater, roof, jokul wood stove, porcelain tile, walls & flooring, hot tub, and more. Now we are selling it cheap because we have to go. If it doesn't sell, maybe we will rent it.
Someone came to look at it today with their realtor. It would be perfect for a large family. I hope it will be a happy home for someone special.
The rest of our family just says that we are crazy to give up our cushy lives here to go to live in some backwards part of the world. We might be a little bit crazy because it is really nice here.
Last night we watched the movie "City of Joy" starring Patrick Swayze about a doctor who works in a medical clinic in Calcutta. The conditions there looked really bad. Seeing how people lived in the movie made me so sad for them, and it made me think that there would never be enough help to meet their most urgent needs. Several people at our church are planning a mission trip to India, but they are not going to Calcutta because they heard it was not safe.
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