In less than 30 hours I will be boarding a plane in Winnipeg headed to Calgary. Once in Calgary I will clear US customs and fly to Seattle. I will wait four hours in Seattle and then fly to Seoul, where I will be for 9 days or so. Then to the island paradise of Jeju which I will call home for the next twelve months.
I think I have everything. Visa, passport, some cash, clothes, deodorant (which is not readily available in Korea), other toiletries, my laptop with adaptors and a book or two to read. I can’t think of anything I am missing but I have this feeling of dread that I have overlooked something major.
What in the world have I forgotten?
Today I received my visa. In a few shorts days I will be moved out of this apartment and moving back to the mother-city. Here is what I had to do to get to where I am right now.
- Apply online
- Communication with recruiter via email and phone calls.
- Get criminal record check and vulnerable sectors search (I’d suggest other people do this before anything else gets started. It takes time.)
- Get University degrees, CRC and VSS notarized.
- Send notarized University degrees, CRC and VSS, and university transcripts to the consulate to get their stamp.
- Have a phone interview.
- Get accepted.
- Send application, recommendation letters, passport time photo, University transcripts (direct for University), notarized copies of CRC, VSS and Degrees to Korea.
- Wait
- Wait
- Keep waiting.
- Receive notice of appointment.
- Send documents to consulate for visa
- Wait
- Get visa.
It is not a huge amount of work but it is a mess of teeny, tiny steps. Frustratingly annoying.
The order was this:
Adam then Noah then Abraham then Jesus.
The deal with Noah was for all his descendants and there were 7 rules. This, understandably, was for everyone.
The deal with Abraham was for all his descendants and there were too many rules. This was only for the Hebrews (and, it must be said, more than likely the Israelites and then the Jews).
The deal with Jesus was something totally different. It was a fulfillment of a deal made with either Noah or Abraham. Likely it was with Abraham. This means it was the conclusion of a deal with the Jews.
More Gentiles are Christians than there are Jewish Christians. Would this mean that Judaic-Christianity is mostly wrong? Where are the Noahic-Christians? And what does Jesus mean to the Gentiles anyway?
The rules for the deal with Abraham are too many. Here are the rules for the rest of us.
- Prohibition of Idolatry: You shall not have any idols before God.
- Prohibition of Murder: You shall not murder.
- Prohibition of Theft: You shall not steal.
- Prohibition of Sexual Promiscuity: You shall not commit adultery.
- Prohibition of Blasphemy: You shall not blaspheme God’s name.
- Prohibition of Cruelty to Animals: Do not eat flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive.
- Requirement to have just Laws: You shall set up an effective judiciary to enforce the preceding six laws fairly.
The realization that a decision is imminent and quite quickly approaching coupled with a newly found awareness that a drastic change is necessary are, together, the impetus for a neo-genesis of Elijah Rintrah and, subsequently, rintrah.ca.
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