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GIC has moved!
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- GIC
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- 2014-02-06
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What seems like forever ago now, the GIC found out the local government wished to reclaim the building we resided in and we were being evicted. Now we are pleased to announce we have (finally!) moved into our new home. Fortunately we were able to find somewhere to live in an equally accessible location with an affordable rent. Everyone, welcome to the GIC at the Samho Center!
Before getting into the details of our new place we’d like to give a massive thank you all the amazing and generous support we received in preparation for our move. This culminated in the overwhelmingly successful ‘Save the GIC Day’! To everyone involved, we are forever in your debt – thank you so much!
In a lot of ways this move has been a long time coming. We have had to postpone and re-postpone many times for many more reasons. So along with our greatest thanks we must also offer our deepest apologies to anyone who did not get to see the GIC’s movement finally materialize.
On January 14th, with the help of many devoted volunteers, GIC staff and interns the move began. We had a lot of preparation to do before our D-Day, January 16th. From when we would officially take up residence in the Samho Center. This preparation was no mean feat. We quickly discovered the dangers of living somewhere for a decade without having a regular clear out… A unanimous decision was reached on the GIC’s New Year’s resolution – we now vow to keep our mess to an absolute minimum!
When the day came we all happily witnessed the bare floors and walls on the 2nd floor of the Samho Center turn into our new and improved home. I am right now writing this under the warmth of a fully functioning air conditioning unit. Gone are the days of our staff wearing coats in the office and our Korean language students shivering in their classrooms’. This however still isn’t the best bit: the newly nicknamed ‘nap-room,’ fitted with a floor heating unit is a favorite amongst us all - so much so we’ve been kicking sleepy interns out of there all week!
Although we’ve been moved for almost a month now we’re still settling in. Unfortunately there are still a couple of areas to be worked on and services such as the GIC library are still unavailable. This being said we are of course welcoming everyone in our usually enthusiastic way and encourage anyone to come on down, check the place out and make use of our currently running services!
Written by Tom Reid (GIC Volunteer)
