Update! Finally!

It’s been a looooong while since our last update.  A whirlwind of transition happened and we wanted to wait with sharing until we were a little more certain about what would come out of it.  As we speak, I, Hanne, have a whole, beautiful day off before my last two days at my current job.  As of this coming Monday I will be working as a nurse at the hospital in Fredrikstad, which is a really sweet city in the Southeast of Norway.  Just a few days after I started working here at Nes, Ryan got offered a coaching position in Fredrikstad, and after giving it a couple of weeks of thought we decided to go for it.  It was a pretty surprising move-I don’t think either of us had expected there to be a job opening for Ryan this soon, not in coaching, nor in Fredrikstad-a city that I have only barely visited in the past.  It was a hard decision, but I told my boss I’d be leaving only little over a week ago, and Thursday will be my last day there.

Now I’m sitting in the garden at Ildjarntunet, thinking about how incredibly fast things change.  The trick is to roll with the changes, ya know… This time last year I was venting big time to our house church after having spent a year pretty much unemployed and living on people’s couches, going to job interview after job interview, feeling desperate for some stability and security, while at the same time feeling like I was in the exact spot where God was wanting me.  I’m a much bigger fan of our current changes.  But I couldn’t have had nor appreciated the one without the other.

So, while I’m sad to be leaving Hedalen, I am convinced we are doing the right thing, and I am really excited about starting a life together in Fredrikstad.  We’ve met some good people there already, and I’m looking forward to a Norwegian summer by the sea.  We’ve got a cool apartment that I can’t wait to invite people to, with a garden where we can have barbecues.  I’m excited about my job, about Ryan’s job, about making friends, about catching up with my pre-USA friends, and about Norwegian summer night after Norwegian summer night after Norwegian summer night...

So if anybody wants to come visit-there’s always a plane headed for Rygge airport and we’ll be there to pick u up, in our awesome new old Volkswagen that can fit all your luggage just like that!