What a difference a month makes

Well, it's out and all finalized. I have a job teaching English to Elementary school students at Sanggye ECC in Nowon-gu Seoul, Korea. My first day of classes as a professional teacher is on Sept 29th. It's been exactly a month now since I first started chatting with David about possibly going away on my own adventure and bumped into Dave's ESL Cafe and then submitted my resume on a whim. It's been a whirlwind ever since. Monday I got all my visa documents together (FINALLY) and last night I had a phone interview and then got my contract with Sanggye ECC.

Today has been another adventure. You'd think taking everything to the FedEx place and mailing it off would be easy, eh? But NOOOOOOOOOOO! Because it's me everything is thrown into a flat spin and my head is put in serious danger of implosion! So, here's how it all played out. I took Mom to work so I'd have the car. I was exhausted so after spending an hour or so trying to get my printer installed on the desktop I took a nap. I woke up at noon when Dad got home for lunch and got the printer installed after an hour of trying. I printed out copies of my contract, scanned and printed out pics of my passport, printed out my resume, and printed out the dinky health survey. Then I took the contract up to Dad for him to read over. Both the parents are starting to be parents and get nervous and stress and get mushy cause I'm moving away. It's too be expected and is kind of cute.

Anyway, after making sure I had everything I head to find the FedEx store at about 3. Of course, I forgot to write down the address and end up driving way past it and ended up in the next town. I bump into the post office there and decide to UPS it. I get in there and fill everything out and am putting the needed documents in the little cute envelope when I realize... CRAP! I didn't have either copy of my transcript. I start freaking out cause I NEVER take them out of the envelope and they are not there. I drive home and ransack my room, knowing that I am running out of time before the post office closes. I can't find it in my room or my Mom's room. So I think. I figure maybe I left it at the Court of Clerks office and so I drive there. It's not there either. I freak more. Then on the drive home I remember I had taken them out of the envelope during the phone interview in the downstairs office. I go down there and find them. Then I go on the Fedex website and check the business hours of the local FedEx place. It was open til 11PM. YAY! I would be able to get my stuff out afterall! I triple check that I have everything, write down the address, and start the drive. Halfway there I look down and the gas light was blinking at me. I had NO idea how long it had been blinking. I'd just passed a BP station so I turned around and put 10 bucks worth in cause I don't have a BP card. I went and mailed out my Visa documents. They'll be there by 6pm Monday. Then I went to a Sunoco station and filled up the tank before going to go pick up my Mom.

So, yes. A simple errand turned into an adventure. Now I only have to wait to hear the visa number stuff from YBM and then buy a webcam and schedule the webcam interview with the Korean Consulate in Chicago. Packing also needs to be done. We've already got most of the clothes shopping done. I am going to look so damn GOOD. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I want to get a small present for my boss as a greeting and stickers and other little prize stuff for my kids. Visiting friends is called for as well and a skype going away chat session with my audiodrama friends some Sunday afternoon is also on my list of to dos. Oh, and of course, mix as much as I can so I have a cushion. Though since I am taking my laptop with me I don't forsee too much of a disruption in my mixing schedule. If I just mix an hour or two a night or every other night I should be able to get done all that I need to. But, for now, I'm going to relax and eat a good dinner.