Trip preparations

Okay so I've done quite a lot for the trip to Korea today. I got a travel insurance from Pohjola and recieved a decision from Kela concerning my student allowance. It seems Kela is not going to pay me as much as I had hoped, and I tried to call them to ask why. The woman answering the phone couldn't help me and promised someone else with more knowledge would phone me today.

Quite shocking is the fact that if I get shot in Korea, insurance company won't pay me anything, but if I twist my ankle, they'll pay my medical care, and a flight ticket back home. In addition, now I only have insurance for the first 90 days of my exchange. For the last 15 days, the insurance company wants to evaluate my health condition before granting the insurance.

I am also waiting a phone call from bank. I asked them how much would it cost to transfer money to my forthcoming Korean bank account. If bank transfer is too expensive, I'm going to use Western Union.

Last weeks I've been trying to learn English by watching movies without subtitles or with English subtitles, and even thinking from time to time in English. I have to use dictionary quite often, which worries me a bit, but most of the time I use dictionary only to find out I already knew the word. Anyway, it's kinda waste of time, since people don't speak English in Korea...