tree and shadow
tree and shadow

It’s been a long, long winter…one filled with many changes and adjustments as Mark and I moved almost 3,000 miles from the southeast coast of Florida to the Bay Area in California. It was sad to say goodbye to our small, close-knit Filipino community in Florida, but it was also exciting to come to the rich cultural kaleidoscope that is the Bay Area.

It was fun but also somewhat stressful to go through the moving-in chores and errands all over again…register the car, get local drivers’ licenses, buy and occassionally assemble furniture and furnishings, update our address at pertinent institutions, get local landline and mobile phone numbers…the list goes on. There was also the adjustment to new jobs, new schedules, new routines, new everything.

And just when we had finally gotten into the groove of things, sad and alarming news came from the Philippines one after the other: the stampede at the ULTRA, the mudslide in Southern Leyte, the declaration of the State of Emergency and its attendant confusion and chaos.

Hay.

On the brighter side, we really love this new place we’re at…the weather’s beautiful (although the temperature sometimes dips into the 30’s), the culture is varied, the pace of life is exciting but not hectic, and the food choices are many and often fabulous.

It hasn’t really been that bad of a winter for us personally…just slightly overwhelming at times. But I’m glad that spring is coming, and with it the promise of new and even better things.


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