Day -20

Oh my word. Just the last few days were so stressful. Here's the story. Last week, I went to Wells Fargo and I paid for my housing fees by wiring the money to Yonsei's bank. The one thing that I noticed when I was filling out the form was that there were two bank account numbers. There was one in the Yonsei Guidebook and one from the housing website. I didn't know which one to use, so my teller (conveniently named Alex Yu) told me to just use the one from the Guidebook. He said that they probably had more than one account and that it would be okay. I agreed and I sent the wire out.

A few days had passed and my account on the housing website said that it was still unpaid. I asked a few friends who wired the money and they got a confirmation because they used the account number from the website. At this point, I was freaking out because I had just paid $1,300 and it was now missing. Worried, I called the housing office at I-House, which was less than helpful.

"Mr. Yee. You must pay to account 264-388501-18887 by July 30. I will send you email and you must pay."

"But I did pay! Can you check the other account?? T.T"

"Thank you." *click*

So what do I do when I start to panic? Call my dad of course. He always seems to know someone who can help me. He got his Korean friend to call them up and fix everything for me and within a couple of hours, my account said paid. Talk about culture shock before even entering the foreign country...

Today is the last day of July. Tomorrow marks the first day of August, which, I think, will probably be the most chaotic month of my life. I don't even know what I'm doing sitting around right now.