Last week Kate and I paid a visit to the Taiwanese Embassy in Toronto. After much delay, we finally arrived in Toronto and luckily found the Embassy very easy to find. We got there at 3:20pm and filled out the necessary paperwork to each obtain a 60 day, multiple entry, extendable, visitors visa. We need to enter Taiwan as visitors and once our contract is signed, we pass our health checks, etc... then we can stay on the work visas that our school will apply for. At about 3:50pm (the Embassy closes at 4pm) we found out that payment is "cash only" and that the doors are closed and locked at 4pm exactly. After a short panic, we rushed down the elevator, down Younge Street to a TD Bank and then all the way back. On our elevator ride back up, the time was 3:58pm. Kate and I made it back just in time for the doors to be locked behind us. It doesn't seem that rushed now that I am writing about it in the comfort of my kitchen... but we experienced a small taste of some of the stressful situations that are guaranteed with moving to a foreign country.
Now that our visas are in place, health insurance is set up and all of the travel shots have been administered, all that's left to do is pack pack pack and bid Canada farewell! This weekend Kate and I will be visiting Harbourfront's TAIWANfest (which happens to take place at such a convienent time!) I cannot wait to get a feeling for the culture in which we will soon be submerged.
If anyone has any suggestions on what to pack that we may not think of, please feel free to let us know! Also, if anyone would like to pay a large portion of my osap debt, that is also warmly welcome :)
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