Today, I turned in my 30 day notice for moving out of my apartment. It's all starting to become very very real. I've really started to check out, including at work, which is really bad. I feel like I'm looking at my life through a pane of glass - I can see everything moving around and interacting with each other but I cannot touch or control any of it. Weird.
Yesterday, I mailed my visa application. I have no doubt that it will be approved. I applied for a 60 day tourist visa (which is free until 2011!) with the intention of extending it to 90 days. That should give me plenty of time to land a job and get the ball moving for a Non-Immigrant visa, which will allow me to work.
Tomorrow, I will pay the final amount for the IH Bangkok CELTA tuition via international wire. I'm not looking forward to walking into that Wells Fargo, but it needs to be done. I'm also trying to figure out how I'm going to handle my money situation while I am in Bangkok. I have been thinking about opening a savings account with the local currency, but I have since read that in order to get direct deposit from your employer, you have to have a bank account at a bank that the company provides for. So if I open an account now, I may have to change banks down the road.
I think for now, I will bring a lot of cash into the country and just try to use my ATM card. There will be a small conversion fee, but that is okay. It should just be until I can open a checking account after I land a job.
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