In 2006 I left England to be a teacher in Seoul, South Korea. In 2008 I am married, pregnant and live in Augusta Georgia USA. This is my story.

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I am 26 and from Northamptonshire ( Rose of the Shires) Attended Liverpool John Moores University which was the most amazing experience and made some fab friends. Graduated in 2002 with a drinkers degree (2:2) in Media Cultural Studies. Moved home about 10 months ago and am now preparing to leave again to do the extreme! and teach english to Korean Children.

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Still in Seoul

So far i have still not been able to adjust my text so that i can actually read it! I am currently at matts apartment on his computer and it still won't work. Anyway blame me not the technology as its probably me who pressed something during a blogging session.

Found out this wweek from my school that if all goes well with my visa then i can return to school as an elementary teacher from May-July. Terrific!

I was having a traumatic time thinking how i could get back to Korea with matt after we were married. Its not simple for the reasons i will now list:

1) I can only stay in the Korea for 90 days without a visa. Then i have to leave.

2) I cannnot work without a visa

3) I cannot get into the country on a one way ticket.

4) To work here you have to sign a year contract with a school.

5) Even through i will be married it doesn't entitle me to stay here with matt as i am not on his orders to be here.

So there was my problem. The only option i had was to stay here and not work and take a trip to Japan after 90 days then come back to korea the next day.

However due to the fact that i told me school my situation they have told me that if they can get the visa for me i will be able to work for the 3 months i am here, on a multi entry visa and basically sort me out. Nice one... Fingers crossed everyone.

Anyway that has been playing on my mind for a while now and hopefully will be sorted soon.

I didn't realise until now that being British doesn't actually allow me to travel and stay anywhere in the world for ages without complications. I suppose the fact that living in Europe is benefical and we are spoilt like that like and therefore as soon as you hit Asia or the Usa my passport doesn't mean s**t.

Anyway i will continue soon .. I have an appointment with a Jack and coke and it can't be rescheduled.

Love to all xxxxxxxxxxxx

3 comments:

Ryan said...

If you ever figure out how to switch blogger back to English, let me know - I keep deleting blogs instead of posting them as I can't read the damn Korean!

Ryan said...

If you ever figure out how to switch blogger back to the English language version let me know! I keep deleting blogs instead of posting them as I can't read the damn Korean!

Ryan said...

Hallelujah! Thank you so much! So simple, and I've been struggling like that for months!

I thought my original comment hadn't posted, as it was showing some kinda error message (but in Korean, obviously!), which is why it's here twice now. Actually, just relieved that it's only here twice, as I must've tried 6 or 7 times!