This will be my last blog on the i-to-i chalkboard as I'm just going to use the blogspot site. The main reason is the blogspot website loads pictures faster and I prefer the layout. ! Anyways on to my last blog..well it's not really a blog but a paragraph... Last week I recieved a email off Footprints (my agency) saying I have officially been accepted by EPIK and will be going to Seoul!! Yay!! Seoul was my first...

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Happy New Year! Hopefully 2011 will be a great year and I'll be working in Korea by March! Here are my New Year's resolutions!!#1 - A simple one to start with! - Move to East Asia (Hopefully Korea!)#2 - Links to #1 -Learn Korean (Though if I don't get accepted by EPIK, this is void!).#3 - Don't plan every little detail! - I am a planner so I can't just randomly go on a trip. I have...

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I applied for EPIK/SMOE 2011 with Foottprints recruiting in September. The forms took me over 7 hours!! I finally found out I had a interview on monday morning (2.50am!!), so I spent the whole weekend preparing for the interview. I was accepted on the 13th and have just sent off my documents via DHL. My main blog is at http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/beehappy86/2/1286581042/tpod.html This site has the questions they asked me, just in case you are preparing for...

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Finally finished my TEFL course. Yay! I've finally got my weekends free to learn Korean. I'm one step closer to Korea. I filled in the EPIK and SMOE  application forms over the weekend, it took me 7 hours! Hope I get a interview but I've heard they mainly want American teachers, so all I can do is wait until October.. Is anyone else applying for the March 2011 EPIK?

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What documents have you all been asked for? I have only been asked for the basic documents and none of the application forms on the EPIK website! I'm really worried as I have a feeling the lady I booked it with may have only booked me on the normal placement. I don't mind but I really wanted to do the EPIK and I want to know what's happening as the EPIK applications have started!!! Please help!!!...

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Hello! I'm so confused about the visa process. Does any one know about getting the basic disclosure verified by an Apostille stamp?? Some websites say you need to get them notarized by a notary body beforehand and others say you can just get it signed by a solicitor. I don't want to get it signed by a notary body as the cost is £75 per document!! How did everyone else send in their basic disclosures? Also, does...

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I keep looking at my calendar nervously waiting for the phone interview. I'm not very good waiting around lol! In fact I'm getting more and more nervous as the days pass! I know you won't 100% find out if your accepted till around October time but I want to make other plans if I am not accepted (Japanese Placement)! I really don't want to be stuck in England for another year! Is anyone else applying for...

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In March 2009, I went on a two day trip to Kyoto. I left Tokyo at 10.30pm and travelled on the nightbus to Kyoto, arriving at 6am!!! First things first, I went and got a cuppa tea! I am very English haha! I then travelled to the Inari temple (hundreds of red pillars up a hill, also on the film 'Memoies of a Geisha'), which was my faveorite place in Japan. I arrived there at...

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