Departue Update

Well, we found out the University will not be paying for our housing until March. In the U.S. that wouldn't be a problem because we would just find an apartment and pay for it outselves until then. However, in Korea it's a little different; Greg found housing that would only be around $800 US dollars a month. They have this thing called key money where you put down a ridiculously large amount as your deposit to make your monthly rent lower. So, the place we were going to try to get... requires us to put $10,000 down as a deposit! By requiring a larger deposit the landlord is able to accept a lower rent because he also collects the interest of the deposit.

So, Greg is coming back to the United States at the end of December. We will be staying with his family until we leave together in March!