Eviction Notice!

I think the two times that the landlord and the building owner walked into my apt with a possible new tenant should have been a good warning...

After I got home from chillin at the park earlier this evening, the landlord came to visit me. He served me with a nice eviction notice. Surprising, the notice was written with very good English. And it was very clear; Christine had not been paying rent since March and they knew the school closed down so they needed me out! I was given until Tuesday, according to the notice. That's exactly two days. I used my Korean skills to beg and let me stay until Thursday and he agreed.

I immediately called my Korean coworker and she tried calling the landlord to extend the time until the end of the month, but he actually ended up yelling at her hahahaa. Good try, Clare. Looks like I will be moving to Muju with Jomes for a while. My friend Grace is also trying to help me set up a courier service so I can send my suitcases with a moving company instead of me trying to take them all the way to Muju by subway and bus.

I'll be leaving some of my less important/needed items at my friends' homes in Seoul for the time being. I am trying to get a new job ASAP so that way I can get a new apartment and settle down again. This is a bit of a crazy/stressful experience, and even though I'm in dire need of a new job, I don't want to sign the first contract that I'm offered.

Tomorrow morning I'll be meeting with all the teachers from my school. We have a lawyer now, and we'll be submitting all our documentation for our joint lawsuit to him. The teachers really want to help Joel [other foreign teacher] and I, so I wanna take advantage of that. They said it might take 3-6 months before we even see any of the money we're all owed.

So as of now I'm unemployed, broke, homeless, stranded, and have illegal status in Korea!! I hope things pick up from here.

Now back to packing....