SOLD!!!

I finally sold my truck! Actually, I sold it the day after my last post. The guy agreed to buy it, without even looking at the truck in person. He saw the pictures and committed to buy it. His bank paid off my bank and I will be handing over the keys to him in a few days, once I get the final documents. He was pretty excited about the purchase and couldn't wait to take it home.

That means I am ready to go! I purchased my airline ticket today as well. I bought the one-way ticket, and I will be arriving in Seoul on 5/18 at 5:15AM. I can't wait! Now, I have to pack and decide what I need to take. Hopefully, I will have enough room in my luggage to fit everything I want to take.

For Sale

I guess my plans of going to Korea in the first week of May is not going to happen. I should have done it sooner, but I just put my truck up for sale last week and I haven't been getting as many responses as I was hoping for. I can't blame anyone but myself for waiting this long, so I have to deal with the consequences. To make this matter even worse, the gas prices went up to over $3.00 per gallon, which is a record high here. That means people are staying away from big cars to avoid the high gas prices, so I just have to find that certain market that are looking for a truck like mine. I've spent a lot of money customizing my truck, but I just want my current loan paid off. I know I will be losing a lot of money, but I don't care at this point.

Hopefully, my luck will change in the next few days and find a serious buyer. I did get a lot of responses, but about 85% of them were scams. I had one guy email me from Nigeria with broken english and wanted to give me $5000 more than what I was asking for. He said he will send me a cashiers check and all I have to do is drop the truck off at some location, then his friends will pick it up. Does he think that I am an idiot? Anyways, needless to say that I didn't sell my truck to him. Well, I have some guy coming by tomorrow to look at it, so hopefully he will bite.

Got my F-4 Visa

I went down to the Korean Embassy in L.A. to get my F-4 Visa. It was a lot easier than I thought. It only took 24 hours to get the F-4 sticker on my passport. I thought it was going to be a lot more complicated, since I was getting mixed information as to what documents were needed to get the F-4 Visa. Some people were telling me that I need both my moms and my dad's documents, but when I called the embassy, they only wanted documents for one of them. I think this only applies to Korean males to avoid the mandatory Military service in Korea, so the first thing I had to do was to get the Family Registry(Hojok) to see, if I was still in there. My uncle in Korea was kind enough to send me the Hojok, which showed my name. For that reason, I had to make sure my name was taken out to show that I am an American Citizen, which the embassy did.

Here's a list of the documents that they required:

-Original copy of the Family Registry and 1 copy
-My original copy of Certificate of Naturalization and 2 copies
-My U.S. Passport
-1 photo
-Proof of name change
-Mom's original copy of Certificate of Naturalization and 1 copy
-Mom's U.S. Passport
-$45
-One stamp

That was it! When I get to Korea, I have to register with the immigration office to get my Residence registration card. You just have to make sure you do this within 90 days of the Visa issuance.