Wednesday, December 06, 2006

My virgin encounter with the French administration

was a complete disaster.... useless bunch of crapasses. You see, after checking, double checking, triple checking the documents to bring to do my visa online, i KNEW the French Embassy was going to pull some shit stunt on me, i had a nagging feeling man....

Apparently they needed 4 copies of my passport (they put 1 on the website), 4 copies of the application (1, on the website), and some other stuff that i needed to have more copies of... so how? i walked to BTC (its near) to have them photocopied (and i'm not even going to BOTHER trying to tell you what a complete urban planning nightmare BTC is... i cant find the freaking entrances!!!)

i walked back to the Embassy (of all days god decided not to rain, he chose tuesday) pouring with sweat.... by the time i reached it was 11plus and the visa section was only opened till 12pm. by the time it almost reached my turn (which was over 12pm already), i saw the lady in front taking out loads of cash to pay for her visa, which got me thinking. Cos swear i saw 70 bucks... so i asked the her how much she paid... she said "$198".... i nearly died on the spot. SERIOUSLY... what the hell is wrong with these people not updating their website!!!

SO i was like FUCK IT man i will come back tmr. And i did... and i woke up at 8am to beat the freakin queue. And then i went o get my french brith cert certified... and horror of horrors it costs me 36bucks just to get a chop... A CHOP!!!! and actually i need 2 more photocopied copies to be certified as well, but it costs me another 28bucks per subsequent copies... SERIOUSLY!!!!!

now i know why they are so rich..... all in all i spent 52bucks getting my birth cert translated, 198 for the visa and 36 bucks to get the chop for my birth cert.... *faintz*

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