Signed. Sealed. Delivered!

As you all know... I've signed a contract to work in Sungbuk, Seoul, South Korea. My first day in the classroom by myself will be August 3rd... so i should be arriving a week and half before then. My "Academic Supervisor" has informed me that we're looking at a departure date of July 21st. :] this makes me very happy because I've been waiting a long time to get going...lol

i sent off my contract last friday... (well my mom did...hehe) via FedEx... it cost $60 for 1/2 a pound of papers to be sent Priority mail to Seoul, South Korea...wow! for some reason i thought $20 would cover it...lol thank goodness my mom loves me and allowed me to pay her back! haha! anywhoo... well as soon as i got that tracking number i e-mailed it off so they could track it...well then i realized it was Saturday early morning to the school...so they wouldn't receive my e-mail until the 22nd (which was when the package was set to arrive...lol)...well i was right and they received the package yesterday around 9:30pm my time...lol so like 11:30am in Seoul. I watched it go from Texas to Tennessee to Alaska to South Korea then to the school! lol even when i was with my family over the weekend camping I tracked it...from my dad's new iPhone...which he loves...I'm so jealous...lol!

with the package at the school, i emailed my 2 advisors to make sure they got it and sure enough i received an email after i got home tonight saying that my advisor had already received my package and even had submitted them to the immigration office in Korea to get my visa issuance # so i could get my visa a.s.a.p. as soon as i get that (in about 7-10 days) I will have to either go to Houston... or mail off my stuff and do an interview over web cam and then get my passport A.S.A.P. only problem with that is I'm scared it'll get lost or it'll take longer than normal. I have to send them my documents beforehand so we can set up an interview time...so as soon as i get the issuance number I'm sending my documents overnight! lol! it'll cost me some money but it'll eventually be reimbursed when i get to Korea.

my friend Rhonda officially arrived in Korea yesterday and I'm super happy for her! I know she's probably having a great time getting to know everyone...and getting over jet lag...that's for sure...lol! I can't wait to hang out with her in Korea when i finally get there!

I'm getting tired of ready other people's blogs that are having a good time in Korea... I'm reading to get my life on the road...lol!

i can't wait to finally be done with walmart too... which will be next Thursday as my last day! woohoo!

Schedule till then is: Tomorrow: Off Wednesday (24th) 9:00 am- 1:00 pm Thursday (25th) 7pm-11pm Friday (26th) Off Saturday (27th) 9:30am-6:30pm Sunday (28th) 5:30pm- 11pm Monday (29th) 5pm-9pm Tuesday (30th) 10:30am-7pm Wednesday (1st) Off Thursday (2nd)12:30pm-9pm then Friday was supposed to be my last day...but I'm off! lol!

These last 2 checks will help me get through my first month in Seoul... i just have to keep in mind that I'll be living there and i don't have to buy every little thing in fear that i wont see it again! haha!

I'm excited...scared...thrilled...anxious... ready...lol i think...at least mentally... i still have to buy another suitcase and actually start packing...haha... i can't believe that i only have like 3 weeks...lol! (that's right right? i was trying to count them... obviously I'm doubting myself but i think that's right! haha!) i obviously wont really start packing till I have like 1-2 weeks left but I need to have things cleaned out of my little closet so they're ready! haha! (which I'll probably do tomorrow!) and then I'll have to repack a few times...

i need to remind myself to call the airport and ask about space bags... like if they'll search them if i have them cause I'm scared they wont have a vacuum on hand to repack them... that would be really bad!!

I've made several friends through the blogs and it makes me anxious to meet them! hehe!

kamsamnida! for reading my blogs...lol some of you have no choice!

i know these are boring now but i know they'll get more interesting soon! at least i'm not like filling you in on my boring days anymore... i'm trying to only blog when there's something to tell! my next one will probably be when i get my visa number and i get ready for my trip to Houston! lol!

go with god!
-gabi ^_^.

Shopping Fun!

So it's been almost a week since I've last posted and not much has happened...diplomas came out this week...woohoo! lol! on monday we went shopping for some stuff for my sister's birthday and for my school stuff...i'm not sure what grade i'm teaching but either way i found stuff that's cute and i should be able to use for whatever age i teach. so this blog is dedicated to showing the few things that i got! ^_^.

we started at a few hit and misses and then we finally went to Michaels... i got ink pads and stickers! lol!

The stickers are from the "Littlest Pet Shop" collection! It's a sticker dispenser so it's going to be easy to use! lol! i got two boxes hoping they'll last me cause I'm a sticker maniac at times...lol!


The colors I got in the ink pads (as you can see) are Teal, Lavender, Red, Fuchsia, and Black... I like the different colors to make it not boring to see every paper that i give back! haha! AND they stack together!!! how cool!! I spent a total of $8.61 on everything so i think it was a good day!


Then we went to Adventures in Learning...so a teacher store where my cousin and i just stepped in to check out if they maybe had stamps for less than $10 cause i found some at Michaels but each was about $10/each...not in my budget! haha! As soon as we walked in Melysah found this classroom stamp set!

It is super neat...includes 10 wooden stamps, 5 colored pencils, 4 star sticker sheets, and a 2-colored stamp pad! lol! Each of the stamps as you can see can be useful in the classroom! I might even try to use the Sign & Return one...lol!!! That's all we got there...it was about $14...not bad...lol

Then we went to a Party Superstore...Card and Party Factory... we found some things for leslie's party and then I also found a few fun things...

2 flags... Texas flag and Mexican flag...still looking for the American Flag...thought it would be good to kinda have international flags...lol... I got a mardi gra mask maybe for halloween or whatever...lol and I got a Clapboard thing...like a directors... i thought it'd be cool to have something like this for fun in the classroom! haha!

everything for $5.70...

it was a successful day!

I can't wait to hear back from the school...

^_^.

11 days...13 hours...and 48 minutes...

Count Down Toys & MySpace Layouts

So as you can tell...I'm counting down to graduation...(i actually should be napping right about now...ugh stupid emotions!)...although i'm counting down i dont think it's hit me that i am moving back home and setting off to S.K. in less than 3 months 1/2 months (shooting for July) and that means I wont see my friends for a whole year as well as my family. It's going to go from seeing my friends every day and every other day to not any time soon... it's scary... i was driving home from my class thinking about how nice it will be to take a nap. then remembering that it would be nice to have a going away/ graduation dinner since steph (my roommate) and i are both moving out and graduating... i wanted to cry especially thinking about how 3 years ago...i graduated high school and left my friends then too and how it never worked out when it came to staying in contact...i dont want to lose touch with people...i wonder if it could happen so easily?

so far i'm counting on: iChat and webcamming since I probably won't have a phone...
postcards/ cards in general/ e-mails/ all that fun stuff

I love you my wonderful friends and will miss you tremendously. please get a webcam :]

Keep it Simple...
Life that is...
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Scared...

Yeah so that first blog i wrote about two weeks ago and so now i'm going to update on my feelings...

School is going crazy...i'm only taking 5 classes and only have to go to 4 cause one of them is only a random class i go to once a month...out of those 5 classes...i believe i'm failing 2 and passing the other 3 with 2 "A's" and 1 "B". I'm scared to death that i'm not going to pass my classes and graduate...i wont know until that final week of classes...and then comes the day of graduation and then i probably won't even know...great... i'll be stressed until the end.

Besides school...I have to think about the future....where do i go? i mean I'm not really wanting to jump into a career at such a young age.. i mean i'm only 20 and 2/3rd...lol (i'm not counting down...) and graduating school a year early so it's like i dont know where to go...my parents want me to do one thing...i want to just rest up and get some experience by continuing my work and trying to move up at my job in walmart...while living with my parents to pay off my bills and try to get on my feet...seems logical right? except i have loans to pay off in the next 10 years...(about 500 a month...for the next 10 years...) why does school cost so so much!

i know this blog is meaningless but that's the whole point...i only started it cause i need someplace to just rant...ramble...throw my brain against the wall...