So we are currently staying at Ryan's house, because Rob is away until June 20th. Both our new director and our recruiter knew that we had to be out of Ryan's apartment because Rob was coming back. The director told us he would try and have an apartment ready for us.

So I call the recruiter today. He says that the old teachers will not be able to move out of their apartment until June 27th. Now let's ignore for a moment the fact that the director told us that he was looking for a new apartment for us, because the old one was too far from the school. This still doesn't change the fact that they knew we would be homeless come Friday. Now I've been here long enough that I didn't have any grand illusions of the director and recruiter actually having something ready for us in time - there was a glimmer of hope though. You see Koreans don't seem to think more than one step at a time. We had to 1) get contracts and degrees to the school; 2) go to Japan to cancel our old visas; 3) get visa issuance papers; 4) go to Japan to get our new work visas 5) move in and start work. Now until step one is completed - to a Korean - there will be no thinking or working on steps 2-5, etc. That's why they have to spend like 12 hours a day at work. Every step in the process is like a surprise.

So the recruiter acts as if it's news to him when he tells me we can't move in until June 27th and I tell him we have to be out by June 20th. He says he'll call the director. I'm sure when he called the director, the director also acted like the whole thing was news to him, even though he's been told emphatically multiple times. Despite being leery of the whole process, we don't really have much of a backup plan if we don't have somewhere to go on Friday. Many of our friends would let us stay on their floors I'm sure, but we also have all our crap, including two giant bike boxes. So, the recruiter calls us and says we can stay in a hotel in Seoul for eight days until our apartment's ready. The director will even pay half the cost. This might be fine and dandy, but we don't have enough money for even half the cost. Were done-near broke. We ask the recruiter if we can stay at a yeogwan (yug-wahn; cheapo hotel) instead and would the director pay for it (as a yeogwan would be about half the cost of a normal hotel). He consults the director and says this is ok.

So we may be living in a roach motel in Seoul, with all of our things, for a week. We'll probably also have to leave our things in the roach motel to go to Japan for a few days. You think it would be a lot easier if the director just let us store our things somewhere - at the school or his house - and then he wouldn't have to pay for accommodation in Seoul while we're in Japan. That might make too much sense though. Oh well, we came to Korea for adventure, and adventure we're getting.