Countdown to Korea

I'm flying to Tokyo in exactly three weeks. As I expected there are problems with my immigration papers to Korea. In truth I would have been extremely surprised had my visa application been accepted without a hitch. As it is, I need to resubmit half of my documents. I suppose this is just the beginning of a long and frustrating relationship with Korean bureaucracy. 

I am excited to move and I am looking forward to what promises to be an exciting and interesting year if also very trying as well. Teaching English in Asia is far from original, every day I meet people who have either gone themselves or have a close relative who has gone over, but this just enforces the idea that it's a pretty sweet opportunity for recent grads. 

I left Ottawa the day after a severe winter storm dumped 25 cm of snow on the city. Arriving in Victoria felt like fast forwarding several months to spring. It is still cold-ish but there are flowers in bloom and not a flake of snow (other than on mountain tops) to be seen. I guess that's it for winter for me for 2008. 

I'm living in Faster J's wicked waterfront condo with Pa and S. I went to bed on my first night feeling like I was staying in a posh hotel. I don't know how I'll adjust to my future shoebox-sized apartment after this! But it will be my shoebox so it will still feel pretty sweet.