My Itinerary

So this is what my Itinerary looks like...

Leave from Portland at 7:30am and get into San Fran at 9:30am

Leave from San Fran at 1:15pm and get into Incheon at 5:30ish pm...the next day! ...thanks to that pesky little international date line (+12 hrs). Either way that's a really freaking long flight!

Take a bus from Icheon to Gimpo airport...and pray like hell we get on the right bus. Although now that I have my handy "I'm an American idiot, need to go to the Gimpo airport, please don't rob me," translation I have no fear of arriving with plenty of time to spare...lol. Ok the card doesn't really say that...although I think it could easily be implied.

Leave from Gimpo airport at 8:10pm and get into Gwangju at 9:25pm

So to recap I'll leave at 7:30am on Sunday and finally arrive in Gwangju at 9:25 pm on Monday. Traveling to Korea sux!


Now you know where the international date line is :)

Getting a little nervous

So now that I've hit the two-weeks-away mark, I'm not going to lie I'm getting a little nervous. I got a little scared when I finally got my ticket plus I was going somewhat stir crazy not working so I decided to drive to Spokane. I think the six hour drive was good for me. Plus I don't care what anyone says, I think that drive is beautiful! I actually really liked Spokane and Coeur d'Alene. I also discovered my new love for bar trivia...aside from the fact Kwiter kicked my ass...lol. Damn you Kwiter! :)

Ticket!!!

I finally got a real life ticket!!! I am officially leaving on July 8th at 7 in the morning! So basically my last day to see everyone will be that Saturday...sadness :(

Work Visa Done!

Here are the steps to get your very own Korean Work Visa...

1. Get a Korean school to hire you. This includes submitting your college diploma, transcript, resume, & copy of your passport.
2. Wait forever for a work visa number.
3. Fill out a crazy work visa form with lots of Korean symbols that make no sense to you.
4. Take your passport, another passport picture, 45$, and your crazy work visa form to the closest Korean embassy (for us Oregonians it's a sweet 3 hour drive to Seattle).
5. Wait 4 hours! (Yeah...4 freakin hours!)
6. Voila, now you have a big sticker on your passport that says you get to work in Korea for a year. Sweetness!

Here is what we did during our 4 hour wait...

Checked out the city


Stopped by the famous Seattle Aquarium...sooo cute!


Checked out a little city artwork


Hit up the pike street market




So neat & fresh!

Work Visa

Finally got my work visa paper work (OK it's not really paper work, it's more like a number or something)...none the less it's here!!! One little trip to Seattle next week to actually get my work visa and we're ready for a plane ticket!

This is especially exciting since I was starting to seriously worry about my "recruiter". Not that I'm saying I don't trust the guy...but you never know.

On a side not I've decided to try and punch up my blogs a bit. Anyone visiting from myspace might have noticed a while back I got rid of anything personal on my page as a way to avoid crazy stalker types. I figure if people liked reading the old msn blogs I wrote (which were basically me making fun of myself and crazy people I tend to meet in Portland) maybe I should switch back to my old ways. I guess we will see.

Hope everyone had a good week! Lately I've felt like a little lost puppy waiting at the door for my friends to get off work. Gawd not working sucks. :(