Still Gettin' Ready: Language study and Internet Research

안녕하세요!

Sorry for the delay in updates, but there hasn't really been that much to update on. I've been doing a whole lot of absolutely nothing. It's a thrill, I'll tell you what. The "Don't you have a life?" questions has been asked far too many times for my taste recently. Of COURSE I have a life! How absurd for you to even ask that question. Just because I go to bed at 8:30pm and hardly ever leave my house these days doesn't mean I don't have a life!

Living in the Spa City again has been great, especially since I've had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with my family, but, when the time comes for me to relocated to The Land of the Morning Calm (that's South Korea, people) my family and friends are going to be the only things I'll say a tearful "See ya later" to.

However, thanks to programs like SKYPE and the beautiful invention of what we call the "Web cam" my distant family and friends won't seem so...er...distant.

I still haven't heard anything back about my visa insurance number. G2K was hoping to know the beginning of this week, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for either today or tomorrow. Apparently there's a huge influx of private school teachers applying for visas this time of year.

EDIT

I got an e-mail from G2K with all of the necessary information just a little while ago. YES! Now all I have to do is fill out a ton of extra forms, make copies, and call the Korean consulate in my area (in my area as in 10 hour drive into Texas) to set up an interview.

I attempted to make the call to set up an interview as soon as I got the e-mail, because that's what the e-mail told me to do and I like being ontop of things like that. Anyway, I get the language option menu which takes me to the "other options" menu. After going through a couple of those I finally opt to speak to an operator.

Operator: (String of Korean speech that I can't understand).
Me: *Blush* Uh... excuse me?
Operator: *Pause, nervous laugh* (Quick English muttering)
Me: Um I...
Operator: *Hangs up phone*

Shocked and confused I stay on the line in hopes that he transfered me somewhere and didn't just hang up like I thought. After a few seconds the truth is revealed, he hung up. Okay! So now what? Well, I do the obvious thing... I call back.

Operator: (Same string of Korean speech that I can't understand).
Me: May I speak to someone in English?
Operator: Oh, could you please call back at 1?
Me: Oh! Okay. Yes, thank you.

Now for some reason I feel really dumb. And seeing how it's almost 2:00 I should probably give them a call back here in a minute...

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In my search for legit study material for getting started on learning the Korean language (That is going FABULOUS by the way. I can now say things like 뫄하세요 Mwo Haseyo"What are you doing?", 어디가세요 Eodi gaseyo? "Where are you going?", 바빠요. Bappayo "I'm busy", and 물좋아요. Mul choayo. "Water is good". ) I've come across a really great site called "Korean Self Study Isn't Lame!". A fantastic name I think.

"Korean Self Study Isn't Lame!" offers things like linguistic history, grammar tips, usage information, and wonderful links to free study material, including two text books offered for download by Monash University in Korea.

Interested in Learning Korean?
Visit "Korean Self Study Isn't Lame!" now! Or visit one of the numerous other language links I have for you to the right of the blog.

WHAT ABOUT MOVING MY BLOG?

Uh. Well, I've decided to keep this blog going on blogger. I like the layout for a personal blog. I've changed the name of my blog from Once Upon a Time in Korea to "Hello Auggie Teacher!" as the latter actually matches the web address. Also, I'm using Once Upon a Time in Korea to possibly start another blog project. We'll see.