Preparing For the Move Part II: Crazy Week

Time until I make the Big Move: A little less than 4 days.

It's Thursday of one of the most eventful weeks I've experienced in a long time. I've wanted to write a blog up to kind of document the craziness but I haven't had the time. Now that I do, I'd like to play some catch up.

It all started last week when I got a phone call from the Korean consulate in Houston Texas. It's interview time! They want to schedule an interview with me for 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. That's great! Catch: The interview is face to face, no exceptions.

Ooookay!

Problem: Finding the time and means to get to Houston for the interview on Tuesday and get back A.S.A.P to do everything else.

Solution: Drive to the airport at 6am, take a plane to DFW, take another plane to Houston, Interview, take plane from Houston to DFW, take another plane back to airport in AR, drive home. Total travel time: a little more than 10 hours. Length of Interview: 10 minutes. Am I complaining? Not at all. It was actually a lot of fun.

After finally climbing into bed around 12:30ish I get enough sleep to get me up and out of the house with little problem the next morning by 8 to make the 3 hour drive to Fayetteville. I spent some time with a couple of friends I haven't seen in a looong time, including a Japanese girl I worked with last year at the Language Center. I didn't get to spend time with everyone I wanted to, unfortunately, because the weather got bad (tornado warnings, rain, thick fog and what not) and I had to drive back home.

3 hours and a lot of gripping the steering wheel with all my might while driving through fog as thick as cotton candy later I was home and climbing into bed yet again.

A dentist appointment at 8:15 this morning proved to be mostly uneventful, but a crack in a seal that could cause a cavity later needs to be addressed so I get to go back again this afternoon. Wonderful. I get to visit my friend Novocain before leaving the country. Brilliant.

There's plenty more preparing to be done before I'm ready to leave the country but it's all minor stuff, like packing. No stress there.

To close the personal part of my post I'd like to provide readers with a couple of simple lessons I've learned over the past few days. I hope you'll take them to heart.

Auggie's Lessons Learned:

1.) Unless you absolutely must, do not exchange money, USD to whatever, via US banks. The exchange rates are 'meh', and you lose money. Of course, I technically only lost 69 cents, but still...

2.) When a government official of any kind tells you to be somewhere at a certain time, get there early. Arriving on time means that they've been waiting for you for at least 30 minutes.

3.) Never get out of your car to adjust your windshield wipers on a windy highway while forgetting that you still have earphones in. Not only will your earphones get caught on something and yank you back into the car, causing you to bump various body parts on hard surfaces like the steering wheel and seat buckle, the wind will persuade your car door to swing into you and knock you sideways again causing you to either trip, fall, or yell profanities. Either way you look stupid, and people driving by are probably laughing at you.

4.) Wearing high heels with no socks or hose will cost you around $1.50 in bandaids.


In The News

A very sad and shocking news story reported here. I don't know if any of my readers are religious/spiritual or not, but it's no secret that the family of this young girl needs prayer. So no matter what deity you believe in, send one up guys.

Language Learning

Visit KimchiCrew for lessons on "Drinking" in Korean and other interesting and useful language information.

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