two weeks today i will have a new signature! i've been practising.
so much is going on right now and the timeline is short:
there's everyone arriving from north america in a week
there's the wedding in two weeks
there's the trip with everyone after the wedding for a week
there's enrolling in university which starts straight after everyone leaves
there's eric's permanent residency visa application process
there's our house-sitting plans
life is busy and i'm doing my best to see the lightest, funniest, calmest side of it...
two interesting facts about the above:
*i had my shortest/longest telephone conversation(s) this week when i was transferred to (insert large number here) different people at auckland university when trying to sort out the timetable clash that shouldn't exist but does...
to make me feel better? eat macdonalds happy meal for lunch and play with toy that makes cool noise.
*eric needs fingerprints for immigration purposes. we go to local police station. they will only take fingerprints if eric has done something wrong. we consider loitering. this is not "wrong" enough. only three places in auckland do fingerprints for immigration. we are in the zone for one particular police station that is on the other side of town (don't understand how the zoning scheme cuts across most of the city). they have only one person who can do the procedure (called putting erics finger on a stamp pad and then putting his finger on a card to record print). this person is semi-retired and only is available for a few hours on a wednesday afternoon. they are, therefore, booked up for a long time. second police station is not happy as we are not in the right zone but could squeeze us in "if they have to", but once again at an inconvenient time. third place is basically not in auckland and has a sneaky way of saying in the phone book it is in one far south suburb but is in fact in an even more further south suburb.
to make me feel better? well, really, when you explain it to someone it becomes too ridiculously funny that its impossible not to laugh. plus, there must be something cool to do in papakura so we will make a day of it and invent fun things to do in the car along the way.
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OK, I just wrote like half a page, and now something appears to be not working again. Fuck it, ma'alesh. Laten ze die hele gallige computerschijt ook maar in hun uitgeragde microsoftreet steken,
Mans
So did everything work out with your fingerprint tragedy? I guess so. Sorry for the slightly rude comment above,better not translate the Dutch, you know how annoying those things can be. Just wanted to let you know that this kind of completely gone out of hand bureaucracy is more or less common in our celebrated western world, t least for the Netherlands I can say it would be comparable or worse. Does not really help you, but still.
Mans
After listening to Steph and Alister re fingerprints and immigration, I know how you feel. Now just hope that they don't get lost in Canada which is what happened to Steph in USA. she had to do them again and be careful that the medical did not expire or that would have to be done again too! What a racket.
Hope all is going well for the wedding plans and we shall see you thursday evening i think, according to Brenda anyway.
Love the aunt
Wow you've got a lot on! The wedding was absolutly fabulous! Hope all goes well for you two in the future!
I'm counting down the days for my big O.E now. The Germans are waiting! Haha I was told I wont be able to speak to Malaika's Grandparents because they don't speak a word of English and even if I spoke German well it would be hard to understand them because of their slang.
Well see you laters!
xo