Immigration News

We received good news from immigration last week. My wife has had her application for permanent residence provisionally accepted. From the sounds of it, she just needs to send in her passport for them to stamp and we'll be ready to head back to Canada. Of course I'll have to finish my contract here which doesn't end until February but we're both looking forward to returning to Canada after that.

Also my wife passed her black belt test in kumdo so now we both have our 1st dan black belts. Our training is going really slow so we're both a bit frustrated by our progress. Now that her black belt is finished she may move on to try something new. I'm not sure what's going on with my teacher's proposed joint kumdo school business in Canada idea but apart from talking about it now and then, he seems to have little interest in actually training us to a level where we can teach it.

I'm finding school very frustrating these days. Important information is kept out of my reach on a daily basis. For example, on Monday I usually have my first class at 10:00 but at 9:10 my students told me that I should be teaching them (class starts at 9:00). Apparently there was a change in schedule but no one told me. The very next day I was sitting at my desk at 8:52 and my supervisor said, "You should be watching over the exam. You should have started at 8:50!" This kind of thing happens on almost a daily basis and I even sit next to my supervisor so I have no idea how this happens so often.

These events as well as others cause my wife and I to dream of Canada every night when we go to bed. It's strange - when we're in Canada we yearn to be in Korea where it's more exciting. When we're in Korea, we yearn to be in Canada where it's peaceful and not so chaotic.