Holy Visa.

This visa process is a killer. After 2 1/2 months of collecting, sending, and worrying, there has to be an end somewhere in sight, doesn't there? I am ready to go downtown to the Korean Consulate today, feeling good and on task and on schedule when I discover...The Korean Consulate in Chicago requires an in-person interview before they will issue me my visa. The closest available interview is next Wednesday (Feb 3) , which I am set to attend. I now have an air-tight schedule that must unfold without a single glitch or I fear my adventures in Asia may never come...
Wed/Feb 3/ 10:30 am- Interview at the Korean Consulate
Thurs/Feb 4-well, nothing here, just enjoy the NBC lineup and Project Runway
Friday/Feb 5/9:30- my visa will be ready for pickup they say...Deities above, I pray it is ready
Friday/Feb 5/after I get my visa- I was told to wait to book my flight until I have my visa in my hand...so, unless my contacts abroad give me the ok to book anyway, I have to book my flight the night before I leave...makes me nervous
Saturday/Feb 6/11:something a.m.-my flight to Incheon (13 hours nonstop...not bad at all)
Sunday/Feb 7/4:30 p.m. Korea time- arrive in Seoul
Monday/Feb 8- FIRST DAY OF WORK...with major jet lag...add on the pressure of this being my first "real" job PLUS my first time out of the country...my eye is going to be fiercely twitching.

Surely, if all goes according to plan, this may well be a most stressful few days. Bring it.

Incheon English Village

This is a video about the school where I will be working. I chose this school becaue it looks F-U-N and I am the most fun person I know. Therefore, I figured that it would be a fitting match.

Butterflies in my tummy

It is all coming together. After two months of collecting and waiting for documents, they have all been sent to the Incheon English Village and now I wait some more, go to the Korean Consulate in downtown Chicago, wait one more week, and I have my visa. Presumably, this will all be completed before my February 8 start date. Goodness, that date is suddenly creeping up very quickly. I have, of course, been excited and anxious to leave for Korea but now that the depature date is getting close, nervousness is finally starting to set into my little American tummy. However, its like Mama T always says anytime I have been nervous to start anything- "As soon as you get there, you will have a blast and all the nervousness go away". Though this was not true on my first day of T-ball (I ran off the field screaming...literally, screaming), in almost all other cases, Mama T has been right. Usually, I'm right (as I remind her daily), but in these instances, she has been. So, I'm going to trust LaDonna/Mama T/Wyotch and hope that this does not turn out to be my adult version of T-ball.