After a week of nail-biting waiting, I got my visa insurance number! Yay Me! Monday or Tuesday I head to Chicago to the Korean Consulate to turn in the visa application and within hopefully three days, I will be all set to leave!
My contract begins on the 31st of this month, nine days from now. I feel like I need to keep repeating this to myself so that it finally sets in. It is almost too big a concept to get my head around. I finished my last day at target, I am saying goodbye to family today, I have all but one or two things bought for departure, and I still do not really feel like I am leaving. I have a feeling it will settle in a little more each day until the moment the plane takes off, at which point I will have a full on breakdown. Hopefully not.
Right now I am beginning to flip-flop between really excited and verge of panic. The panic is more related to the packing and keeping myself occupied on the 22 hour flight then with really leaving. I have waned to do this for over a year and I feel like I am relatively prepared to leave. I am sure the first night there alone I will have a good cry about missing my family, friends, and mostly my pets, but then I will be so busy learning, working, and exploring that I will forget to be lonely.
Well, I am off to cut my wardrobe in half!
