Breakfast was delicious and as I headed up to the cashier to pay, I couldn’t help but feel thankful to have a local diner near us again. After being stationed in South Korea for two years, we missed a good ole American breakfast out with our family. But after one simple question, the happiness I felt was about to be ripped out of me and replaced with anger and frustration. As a military spouse I have been through this scenario a handful of times; it stings just as much every single time.
South Korea was by far the toughest military move we have experienced to date, and we have quite a few under our belt. It was filled with multiple challenges. Everything from living in the countryside where only a handful of the locals spoke English, to not being able to read the vast majority of anything around us was challenging. We were unable to quickly ask for directions when lost, which was more often than not. Unable to strike up conversations with other moms at the park, we were almost always the only English speakers there. Difficult to find my way around the local grocery store or even recognize what an item was.
