Two tries for a visa to the United States failed, but first try for Canada and Tabita got a visa (PTL!!!). Last Monday we spend the day at the Canadian embassy, but it was worth all the time waiting. Canada gave Tabita a 4 month temporary residancy visa, meaning that we both can go together to Langley BC, near Vancouver for the summer.

Why you might ask? Our plans for the summer have undergone some remarkable changes in the past few months. First we were hoping to go to the States where I would work for the summer months. Once the US embassy said no to that option, we had to rethink. A short time after that I found out that a school in Canada would accept my degree for their master's program in linguistics. But one of the prerequisites is a summer linguistics course offered by Canada Institute of Linguistics at the same campus (Trinity Western University, Langly, BC). Originally thinking we would have to wait until next year to start because of our visa situation, our contact there suggested trying for a Canadian visa regardless of whether or not Tabita received a US visa. It turned out to be a good suggestion. I was accepted to the program and am starting June 11th. We left the Canadian Embassy both extremely grateful to God that we do not have to even consider being separated for all the summer months.

We will arrive in Canada on June 1st. That will make it the 5th nation in which we will have traveled during our first year of marriage. Not bad I do say.  (US, Romania, Israel, Italy and now Canada...God is Good)