Peace Out USA

Today was my last day in America for the next 365 days- crazy and I did not even know it till I woke up this morning… let me tell you a little about my past week.

Monday- bought my plane ticket- cha ching

Tuesday night- Find out I will be working at a different school

Wednesday- Find out they want to change my plane ticket to fly out 2 days later on 8/19

Friday- Still waiting to hear about the news about my new ticket

Sunday/Monday- said all my Orlando “see ya laters”

Tuesday (THIS) morning 8:30am- Found and email from the director in Korea- I leave tomorrow (8/17) at 6:53am- HOLY.COW.

Realization after reading – I have less than 24 hrs left in America…

Needless to say I jumped out of bed and have not stopped moving until now. I was thinking that they really were going to change my ticket to Friday and I had all the time in the world. Just kidding. I had things to put in my parents storage unit, the oil in my car needed to be changed, laundry needed to be done, I wanted to make sure I had all my travel info together.

Then I look over the last email from Korea

“ps. Please don't forget to bring a set of your degrees(1 original Degree and 1 Apostillized copy of it). That's necessary for your another registration in Korea.”

Umm excuse me? What is this?

So- a month or so ago I drove to Tallahassee (5 hrs each way) to get my diploma apostilled by the state (it’s basically a super important notary). I mailed that to Korean immigration so I could get a visa.

Today at 1pm I find out that I need another diploma apostilled for the Ministry of Education. Yeah- not gonna happen

I have awesome parents who are going to mail my diploma to tally and then to me in Korea- what would I do with out them

I will be up in less than 5 hours to leave for the airport- don’t think ill sleep much tonight. I fly to Chicago then I leave at noon central time for Seoul. 14 hours later I’ll arrive- and the REAL adventure will start.

It’s not really hitting me yet- I think it probably will somewhere over the pacific.

One last think I want to tell you about- I had the BEST dinner tonight-

Drink: Pomegranate Margarita

Appetizer: Shrimp and Lobster dip

Entre: Steak and shrimp with a loaded baked potato

I like leaving the country- gives you an excuse to forget anything you ever learned about dieting for a night ;)

Anyways- I best go zip up my bags and try to sleep a little- haha- yeah right