Today i was supposed to go to the suwon immigration office to get a re-entry permit into korea and an extension on my visa since the people kinda messed it up the first time around..oh, AND i was supposed to go cancel my internet as this is the last month that I will need it and I have been paying month my month.
THE PLAN: the plan for today was: after my first period class, which ends at 9:45am....go to cancel my internet account , grab a cab and go to the immigration office and get that stuff all done, come back to school at around 2pm, finish correcting some scripts of my students for school just in time for our 3:30pm speech contest training.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED:
Internet: So i had tried to cancel via phone but was told that i had to go in person to cancel my account. So I left school and first of all, got a bit lost, but finally when I got there (note: it was raining) I was able to get that done. So my internet will officially get disconnected September 18th (the day my mom and i leave for china) and the guy will come get the modem on sept 28th (when we get back) i already paid the last bill, so thats taken care of! one more thing off the list! Time of departure 10:50am. Next mission...
Immigration office: I got directions off the internet on how to get there and it seemed pretty simple. But the directions were actually not clear on what busstop i had to get off at and so I get a much longer way, got lost and then ended up having to take a taxi. So wasted a good 20minutes trying to find the place (oh, they just recently got a new building) So finally i got there. From the older office I remembered from when I got here I thought it would be a quick process and that I would be in and out of there in little time. But when I got there.... i got my number #160 and realized they were on about #89 and it was moving pretty slowly. So what i thought would be maybe a one hour wait and then getting stuff done actually turned into a 4 hour wait! yes.... 4 HOURS!
now...
the good points.... while waiting I met some awesome people.. two students from Spain, 2 from france who were studying economics, 1 from Austria, 2 from Mexico and 1 girl from the US. All except the girl were there to get their alien resident cards because they came to Ajou University to continue their studies. I was seriously surprised how many students there were. I think at least 30 went by... (they were processing their work in group and they got in and out quick! ).
the bad points... I got out of there exactly at 3:00pm, so i had just enough time to get back to school for the training, but I didnt get the corrections done, which I needed for the training, so i felt really bad. AND i didnt even eat lunch!
so there you have it. my day.
now, i just got home and am about to go the coffee shop to get some corrections done and email them to my students (cancelled my private for tonight). Once i get that done, i wanna work on my italy project and then on the logos and some company stuff... phewww.....
bye bye
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