So the final update on the application process is now here! I know you’re thrilled…

This is a totally dry and necessary blog for those of you applying to EPIK since I do not want you doing what I did.  Now, where was I…oh yeah.  Apostilles.

I called the Secretary of State’s office and they told me that they can’t make a copy or apostille a copy.  She told me they would simply do the same thing they did before.  So my advice is to call the office and ask as many questions as necessary to find out what you need to know.  Then email your coordinator (hereafter referred to as The C) to make sure it’s alright before you send all the documents.

So after taking my own advice and emailing my coordinator back and forth over more than a week, I ended up sending scans of what I had and he said it was alright so off they all went to Korea.

I finally got everything together(so I thought) and FedExed the whole shebang to the coordinator in ROK (Republic of Korea for the uninitiated).  A few days later I got a confirmation email from The C but a very polite ending informing me that I didn’t send something they needed, and quickly.

In the list of documents I read that since I submitted my application by email I couldn’t sign it officially.  For the hard documents I sent they needed the two pages of the application signed.

In the explanation of the documents it said just to print off the two pages that need my signature and send them.  Well, The C said that he needed my completed application as well as the signed pages.  I’m seriously confused because it says explicitly to print off those two pages and include them, not the whole application.  I was feeling like an idiot that can’t read but I went back and saw that it said to do just as I did.  But if he needs it, so be it.

Ah well.  I knew this would be a process and things would go wrong so I’m trying to give it all back to God and let Him deal with it, since I just get frustrated and angry and that does no good to me or anyone else.

I haven’t heard anything else since but I think what comes now is the contract I have to sign, and with that I can go to an interview at the Korean Embassy.  After that I should be able to get a visa on my passport.  Then we should be able to arrange a flight.

Then I fly to KOREA!  woot.

So many things to do…

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