We have one more day left in the United States and everything is finally starting to become less surreal for me. Goodbyes, though always hard, are becoming slightly easier as I've finally decided that I'm ready for this. The last few days have been nothing but busy. Meeting up with friends and family for the last time, moving out of our Cleveland Heights place, settling accounts, buying necessities, and packing everything have taken up most of our time. We're also trying to get hotels booked, print out every possible map and set of directions we might need (we might be internet free for a bit), and find the things we want to go see before we both start working. We're almost ready. Just a few last things to take care of.
Visa update.
By the time I was settling in for bed Thursday evening, my E2 number still had not arrived. So Alan and I decided, regardless of if it came the next morning or not (it did), we were going to do a visa run to Japan. It would be expensive to change flights, I'd miss out on Seoul and we'd end up having to take another trip there some time so that I could experience the city too. There was also the chance that if we rebooked and I took my visa application to Chicago, it would take longer than expected again to process and we'd have this same problem all over again. So instead, we're doing the famous Japan visa run.
Our itinerary looks something like this:
Wednesday morning: Fly out from Cleveland to Chicago and from Chicago to Incheon Seoul.
Thursday afternoon/eveningish: Arrive in Seoul
Friday-Monday: Hang out in Seoul
Monday- Take the high speed KTX train to Ulsan
Tuesday- Take a train or bus to Busan to the International Ferry Terminal and hop on a ferry to Fukuoka, Japan
Tuesday-Friday- Hang out in Fukuoka while visa processing takes place
Friday- Take the ferry back to Busan and head back to Ulsan
Monday- Start work
Somewhere in there, we have to find an apartment and move in and figure out how to get to our respective work places.
Here we go!
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