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I guess I can set the stage a bit. Just married. Just moved to South Korea. Still adjusting to both of these lifestyle changes and enjoying the adventure.

Home is a nice-sized apartment on the 12th floor of a 20 story building. Our front door has a numberpad instead of a lock and key. When you first walk into the apartment, the floor is lower, providing a nice square to kick your shoes off before stepping up a few inches and into the rest of our place. These two features make me smile, because they are oddly the same as my family home. Our cedar, one-story house had a keypad before it was cool, so we never had house keys. Because of the red mud around our house, and then out of habit (and some might say my laxity), I always kicked my shoes off immediately after coming in, leaving them on the hardwood floor rectangle in the entryway. So some things are the same, I still don't need a house key, and now I get to share my "shoe blob" with Isaac.
Our place is roughly aligned with the cardinal directions, so we get cool Northern and strong Southern light throughout the day thanks to the large windows which run the length of both ends of our apartment. Looking out the windows to the north, there are countless apartment buildings just like ours with nice green trails, parks and schools tucked in between. Towards the south, there are city streets and myriad businesses stacked on top of each other like restaurants, coffee shops and karaoke rooms.
So this is our little newlywed nest. Traffic sounds join the cicada songs, a mix of the familiar and new.