I wish the foreign office would quicken the pace with this damned apostile stamp. To 'waste time' i have booked flights to Portugal to see my dad. Atleast then I will be able to produce some 'actual' travel blogging as opposed to 'waiting with trepidation' blogging or 'time killing' blogging. So bye for now and look forward to next week and my guide to Porto, Povoa and the bits inbetween. (undoubtedly including a 'review' of ryainair and stansted airport......

Visa, Visa, Visa. After finally figuring out what an 'Apostile Stamp' was and how to get one, my CRB is currently sat in a very big pile in an office in Milton Keynes waiting to be legalized and until then if its mainly a waiting game. I sent it by the advised method of royal mail special delivery four days ago - the process will supposedly take up to 3 weeks maximum so here's hoping it will be a little bit less. On a positive note, i sent off my transcript r...

Today is a rather monumental day, the pie in the sky plan to teach english in South Korea has just moved forwards in one giant leap as I have been offered a job in an elementary school in Munsan. I'm in a minor state of shock and still finding everything intensely surreal... hang on a minute I should really rewind and start from the beginning... The Beginning. Part 1. Hi, My name is Jess and about five years ago now I had the idea I wanted to go and teach en...