I was excited to get home from work on Monday and discover that I had received my FBI Criminal Record Check in the mail. The results were not surprising: No Arrest Record. If it had come back differently, I would have been a bit surprised, seeing as how I've never seen the inside of a jail cell in my life (I'm in the minority on this one when it comes to my siblings, scarily enough).
I emailed my recruiter a scanned image of the CRC, as he had requested. He wanted to ensure that it had been authenticated correctly before I mailed it off to the U.S. Department of State to have it apostilled. Thankfully, all was well. I mailed it off yesterday afternoon, and hopefully in about 2 weeks I should have it back. The website says it takes about 15 days to complete.
My recruiter then asked if I had an apostilled copy of my college diploma, which I completed a couple weeks ago. Turns out my employer is hoping to have my documents in Korea on June 2nd to begin the visa process. I'm not so sure that timeline is going to work out.
I'm a bit frustrated by it, seeing as how I have gotten this process started as fast as I could have and it is entirely out of my hands. The government works at the pace the government wants to work at. So, hopefully it won't be too much later than the 2nd of June, and hopefully the director of my school can take a chill pill already.
That is where things stand in the Korea department. I feel like it is moving quite slowly, but I know it will speed up here in the near future and I will be boarding a plane in no time.
On a much more domestic note, the season at LHF is well under way and I could not be more excited! We have had some not-so-great weather (read: very cool) to start off with, but I think spring is finally here. Yesterday, it actually felt like summer. We had record highs all over Iowa. Des Moines reported a high of 96 degrees. For those of you familiar with the Midwest, this inevitably means storms are right around the corner, which we had today and are in the forecast for tomorrow. Seeing as how I planted much of the vegetable garden on Monday, this is welcome rain. If it sticks around much longer, though, I will be reneging that statement.
I am really enjoying being back. I love historical interpretation, and I love being able to get my hands dirty with gardening, cooking, taking care of the chickens, etc. Speaking of chickens, we have a broody chicken. We're not sure if she has a fertilized egg or not (I know that sounds silly, but she was around roosters for a while, so it's possible even though we don't have one at our house). If, in the course of about 20 days, she hatches a chick I will be sure to post pictures. Right now all we've got is a robin's nest on the back of the chicken coop and one hatched baby robin.
Such and exciting life I lead! I'm glad it is mostly family that reads this, as anyone else would think I was a loony bin for being so excited about this sort of thing. You all might think so, but you are forced to love my anyways! At least there are no pictures to prove my nerdiness to the general public. My period appropriate clothing would make it all the worse...!
