Hi guys!

So the trip went well, we never got lost or took any wrong buses. The flight from San Fran to Incheon was around 12 hours. It wasn't that bad though, I had a little monitor with a screen on the seat in front of me with like 40 different channels of news, movies, and TV shows to watch (all in English too!). I basically watched three movies and then knocked myself out with sleeping pills.

I'm not going to lie I'm having hardcore culture shock. A lot of people so far have gone out of their way to speak English to me so that's nice, but it's still hard.

I'm going to try to unpack and figure out my crazy bathroom before I have to meet with my directors for lunch (both are really nice). I'll include a pic of the bathroom on my next post. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting...lol.

Thanks for comments! I miss you guys tons! :(

I'm here!

Wow!

I'm finally here! So tired, need sleep. Google and blogger are in Korean...damn it. It took me a while to figure out how to get to this point. I'll figure it out later.

I'll write more tomorrow. I pinky swear!

Packing

I HATE packing! I hate it with a deep passion! How do you know what to pack for a year? Everything? I can't fit everything in my two suitcases and super huge hardcore hiker backpack...trust me I tried...lol. I tried to go back through my bags and ask myself, "do i really need this?" The answer was obviously YES :) I'm keeping my fingers crossed I don't go over the 50 pound limit per bag for international travel. If worse comes worse the customer service lady promised me there is no weight restriction for carry-ons. Hell ya!

p.s. I was so excited I got a comment! Then i realized it was in Spanish...i don't know Spanish. So then I tried to use one of those free translators online. Yeah that didn't go so well...

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Wow those suck!

...hair, blog, personalized t-shirts...I have a feeling they want me to buy something. Oh well maybe next time.

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. :(