Name: Seeing Our New Place for the First Time | Life in Japan Episode 178
Uploaded: 2022-09-06T17:40:36.000Z
Duration: 14 min 44 s
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Our application for a new rental apartment was just accepted,

To-infinitive

but as we quickly move towards our moving date, problems compound that threaten to put our whole move in jeopardy.

But as things keep falling into place, the kids are finally able to see their new home for the first time.

So it means that when typhoons come you get a lot of rain and sometimes wind too, and it's dangerous.

A category 4 typhoon is approaching Japan and is supposed to move through over the next day.

Japan is pretty well prepared for most typhoons, but the big ones can really cause havoc.

It might be raining outside, but oh it's nice inside.

You want to come see it? And it's super loud.

Fortunately this storm wasn't as bad as predicted and moved through in the night.

But it's not just this storm that has us concerned, but two others storms that are backed up, as if in line behind this one.

Everyone wants good weather when they're moving, and that's certainly true in our case.

It is so incredibly humid today, my goodness!

Well it sure looks like the fall, but it does not feel like the fall.

In English we have to say two words: hot and humid.

But in Japan they actually have one word for it all: "mushiatsui"

The winds of change were blowing, and in this case right through our house as we were preparing for our big move that was still not finalized yet.

This is what packing looks like, oh my goodness!

Let's go see what is going on over here...

Lego Mario? Mommy's getting them all together for the move?

We're all done. That's one's done. That was a short one.

So we are on our way. We have a number of meetings today. Paz Staff Meeting

Then afterwards we have to get busy on all the stuff you have to do for a move.

One of the first things is we need to sign up for a [specific] bank

We have address changes, we have schools that need to change

What else? There's a lot of stuff that needs to happen here soon.

Well it's exciting. It's overwhelming all the things you have to do.

As a foreigner I think it's just a little more overwhelming.

Four years running now. That's pretty cool.

Paz Coffee Shop is just about to open for the day, and the Paz Church staff meets here regularly for meetings.

We opened this shop around the same time we started this channel,

and it is one of the big reasons we chose a smaller place that was close over a larger place far away.

While are meetings are productive, we really enjoy our time together too,

so it's nice to do some business as usual in the midst of the moving mayhem.

No job is perfect, but having work you love to do is a blessing of its own.

This is a double-shot macchiato, a real one

Not the weird Starbucks stuff, this is the real stuff

It's amazing. It will change your life, actually.

It will bless you in the deepest way that's possible.

Ah, look at Ben. He's full-on winter mode here.

Just enjoying his coffee with his parka on...

Work and fun aside, moving day was coming closer, and we still didn't have any papers signed or any boxes from the movers,

but on of those things was about to change.

And all the boxes here for us to start using.

We soon had a formidable stack of boxes in our entryway.

Well, it just became even more real, didn't it?

Here let's try one and see how big they are.

Let's at least put the heavy things in them and the lighter things we can transport on our own.

This is the first box, here it is right now.

See, it's good size but it's not a beast.

I'm going to put all my plants in here now.

Looks like the plants are the first to safely be stored.

Well the typhoon missed us, which is really nice,

But all of that warm, windy, rainy weather came this way

Just with the rain, and then the sun— but lots of wind, always.

Well the winds of change are blowing, and they're certainly blowing our way.

And while we know there's going to be lots of things that we like about the next place that we're going to live in

We're going to be very nostalgic about the place where we've lived. This is very special for us.