Driving

I read on the embassy page that Korea chose a 30-year-old computer vision engineer named Ko San as their first astronaut to make a trip to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft next year. Choi Hyun, the first Korean rookie ever to make the first round of the draft in MLB was choosen. So that is exiting news for Korea! http://www.koreaembassy.org/

I've also been reading the Korean times online and found an article about one of their pop singers that I have seen referenced several times so I copied a picture of him on the top left with some of his artwork just to show differences in pop culture between America and South Korea.

I visited Helena yesterday and got some much needed info. I also got my shots! ouch! That was not fun and my arm has been sore ever since. Today Eddie and I drove up to Seattle to the consulate to get our visa submitted but they wouldn't let Eddie get a year visa because he only paid for one quarters tuition and they won't let me get a business visa because I didn't have a letter from immigration so we both got the c-3 travel visas. I drove Eddie back home 'cause he had to work at one then I had to go back up and pick up the visas at three thirty. Parking by the consulate was hell! I spent twenty minutes driving in cirlces until I finally landed a fifteen minute spot. I got the visas and then got a call from someone I had e-mailed on craigslist.com about a lap top computer. The guy had a HP compaq nx9600 laptop for sale for $675 and I knew I needed something quickly so I decided to go check it out. I drove up to Mill Creek where he lived and found out he and his wife were Korean. We talked for a while about their adventures and about what I was planning on doing and then I bought the computer and drove home. It took me about two and a half hours to get home from Mill Creek on a Wednesday afternoon. I was supposed to show my car to someone who wanted to buy it today but I didn't get home until after eight thirty so my day was spent in the car. I also bought the Rosetta Stone books on tape and a Eastern Philosophy book through Barnes and Nobel with Eddie's discount card and saved a good seventy dollars or so. Today was a long and tiring day and tomorrow I have much more to do! I hope to meet with Michael at Evergreen about my independent learning contract and I need to show my car and meet with a couple friends for some good byes and go talk to financial aid.