yeah, i have cat stevens "trouble" stuck in my head. i'm down in the dumps today.
so... we went to bratislava, slovakia yesterday to pick up our visas from the embassy. woke up at 6am, got on a bus at 7am, got in at 11am... you can't go inside the embassy until 1:30pm... so we just walked around and then got a coffee in a cafe and read. finally we go to the embassy and wait an hour to get our visa sticker in our passports. we all applied for a long term visa which is for OVER 90 DAYS and assumed that it would go atleast until our contract for our work or our apt. lease(june 15th). nope. atleast not for sara and i. she got 68 days, i got 103, and matt got 114. random. we all applied at the same time and we all live together. and sara and i work for the same school! why did she get such a short amount of time? who knows how the hell they decide these things. i'm just so pissed we have to pay our lawyer the full amount after all she's messed up. our school won't even help us when they are the ones that recommended her to us.
(oh... and then we had lunch at 2:30, walked around some more, and then got on a bus at 6pm and arrived back in prague at 10pm.... got in the metro station to see lots of cops and chaos due to a woman falling/jumping(?)into the metro tracks as it was coming... therefore it shut down. as we were turning around, a bunch of ticket inspectors were checking for tickets... my opencard(transport pass)expired the day before, so i had to pay 700czk (35 dollars)!!! great ending to a long day of travel.)
europe makes you have health insurance. well, our school won't help us with it when they said they would when they hired us... so we are now getting another 3 months worth just to prove we have it. once you get your visa, they give you 3 days to go to the foreign police and register your visa with them. so that's where we're going tomorrow. not making any money. just spending it.
sometimes i don't understand this country. they denied our friend emily a visa and now she has to leave her job and her boyfriend behind within a week to go back home.
i could go on a rant for a while, but i won't. or i will. haven't made up my mind. my fingers are doing all the work.
AND i had a massage today! i didn't get to relax after it liked i planned, instead i had to run around town getting health insurance and spending money on an undeserving lawyer. sometimes we wonder is this all worth the stress? should we just go home now? i really don't know at this point.
ok i think i'm done. look at pretty pictures in slovakia:
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