Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Paperwork and the Waiting Game

Now that we know for sure that we are going to Korea and that we are leaving April 29th (crazy I know!) we get to play the ever dreaded waiting game.  Although there is much more we can get done in the meantime (for example getting all doctor visits done, moving all our stuff to Trevor's parents house, and learning some Korean), we are both at the point where we are done worrying and waiting to see what our lives are going to be like for the next year.  At times it is so unnerving not knowing anything about our new lives: what our apartment looks like, who our neighbors will be, what our cost of living will be, etc.  It makes it difficult to not back out sometimes.  We both appreciate the positive support we've received from our friends and family and everyone's confidence in us makes it easier (at least for me I guess I can't speak for Trev ;) ) to stick with our new adventure.

Among all this waiting, there are so many things to do and think about.  A lot of these things involve paperwork especially for Trevor.  Understandably, the school needs several important pieces of information and documentation for him to start work.  And of course, official this and official that takes time to process so even when we complete the necessary paperwork, there's more waiting to see if it will be processed in time.  No matter what though, our flight is booked and that's that!

Well, tick tock, tick tock, a whole month left of waiting!  I'm sure it will end up going so fast that I won't even be packed and ready to go the day we need to be at the airport!

Saturday, March 14, 2015

The beginning

Ya, ignore the alcohol boxes
 they make for good moving boxes ok?
A few weeks ago, Trevor encountered a job posting through a friend of his who is currently teaching school in South Korea.  The job was to teach English at a private school in a city called Ulsan.  At first, he just treated the job opening with nonchalance, but after some encouragement from his ever supportive wife ;) it was agreed that he at least apply for the job and see what would happen.  After doing some research on the job and contacting his friend, we quickly became very excited that this job might be a legitimate possibility for our futures.  And, as I'm sure several of our loved ones may be reading this, let me just say we are deeply sorry to have not mentioned any of this beforehand.  We didn't want to get anyone unnecessarily anxious before we knew for sure whether or not we had a job offer.  As it currently stands, Trevor had an interview the other evening which seemed to me to go very well and the next day, we got the notification that Hyundai Chung-un High School wanted Trevor as an English teacher.  Squeaks of excitement and big hugs were exchanged and the hysteria pursued as we contacted parents and siblings to tell them the news.  As of right now, we are already in the processes of packing up our lives as we gave our landlords our 30 day moving notice.  So with all that, send us prayers and wish us luck as we embark on the journey of a lifetime!