Sunday

Sunday, August 30th
We are safely back to our apartment in Seoul. We had a few issues with immigration and our working visa here in Korea. It's a complicated situation and difficult to explain, but here's the short version....We needed to renew our visa before we left the country. We did do this and had all the paperwork in order, but a re-entry sticker attached to our passport was missing. We were under certain assumptions based on past experiences which have turned out not to work this time. Sooo...our visas were taken away and we had to enter the country as visitors. The problem became so much bigger because there is no quick fix in Korea. 2 years ago a foreigner in Korea was sexually abusing children while on a working visa. The Korean government reacted strongly (as it should) and has made the visa process quite complicated for teachers. We are now stuck in the system. It will be weeks to fix the problem and Blake's school in particular is not willing to wait. Our apartment is tied to our place of employment so we had to get out as soon as possible. Our good friends Jenn and Jordan have let us stay with them while we figure out life.