Alien Registration and Other Stuff

Michael and I had a long day today. At 8 am, the director of the school picked us up and took us to the hospital so we could start the alien registration process. First you have to pass the health check, then you can file the paper work to become a legalized resident of Korea. They check our height and weight, vision and blood pressure. Then we went to another room where they drew blood and gave us cups to pee in. Finally we were taken to get chest x-rays. After that, we got our photos taken (For the 5th time, I really wish someone had just said to get 20 pictures to start with.) so we would be ready for our registration cards.


The teacher we are replacing took us to GS Mart yesterday to buy some stuff, but we still needed more things like litter for Gizmo and a bowl and a spoon (Yes, our apartment came with 1 bowl, 4 plates, one fork, one spoon, and one knife). So the director of the school took us to E-Mart, which is like GS Mart but probably twice the size. Both of them are similar to walmart, but in a Korean sort of way.

We made ourselves some baguette sandwiches and then walked to school. We start at 2 on Wednesdays and teach from 3-8:25. It's kind of a long day, but still less hours than I would be working in the states, so I can't complain! We have free internet in our apartment, but only through an ethernet connection, so we had the director order us a wireless router. We thought we would be able to figure it out, but when we got home we realized it's all in Korean, so we are stuck to using one computer at a time until we get this figured out.