The wonders of Canada Post...

Ever sent someone a letter and wondered if it ever got there? How about forms for government documents? Just recently Shan and I had to renew our medicare cards, and after a very long wait, they arrived last week.
We haven't been nearly so fortunate with our paperwork for Korea. We sent all of our necessary documentation for our visas to Korea more than two weeks ago and it hadn't yet arrived at the school where we're going to be teaching. So, after being reminded that expresspost provides a tracking number, I checked today as to where in the world our paperwork might be.
As it turns out, it arrived in Korea a week ago (exactly when the expresspost quote said it should be there), but has been on hold at the post office for the last week for whatever reason.
I've since emailed our contact at the school with the information and the tracking number, and hopefully we'll be on our way soon.

The wonders of paperwork...

It's amazing how time-consuming paperwork can be, and how a little detail missed can hold up the process quite significantly.
We've been working on paperwork to be able to go to Korea for what seems like a long time now, and the reason it's taking so long is that we've been waiting for Shan's new passport to arrive (as it turns out, you need a new passport when you get married and change your name, and we only just found this out three weeks ago).
The good thing is, though, that once it arrives, things should go quite smoothly and we should be on our way to our new home in Daejeon within a couple weeks.
Our biggest prayer request at this point is that everything will go smoothly once Shan's passport arrives, and that we'll be able to head on over as soon as possible (not that we don't love you all, of course!)