One: Overstay your original visa and pretend like nothing happened...(maybe, take a sightseeing tour, or go and get your hair done...)
Okay...we didn't actually overstay our visas...but we came pretty close. Jo and Kara and I have all been together in Taiwan for two months...we didn't realize until yesterday - when we were looking at tickets to Singapore - that we had actually been here for almost 60 days. We let our supervisor know and thought little else about it after that, thinking that everything was taken care of...until the next afternoon. We were out searching for the perfect pet fishes, when the cell phone rang... they needed me back at the apartment - pronto - to go downtown with Jo and Kara to get pictures taken (before the photo-shop closed) for the new visas. After picking out Gunnar (the blue fish), Gezee (the one with the speckled tail) and Puck (a cupid sort of fish) we booked it back home so I could fill out paperwork for the new visa. While we waited in the shop, we took turns aggravating their pet bird and watching him try to snap our fingers off. The next day, thinking everything was taking care of, we headed out of town to Kenting - a beach town and also where they are opening a second English Village in December. I should probably mention that Kenting is almost two hours south of where we live...and we were only about fifteen minutes away when Wes came to the back of the bus, and told the three of us that someone from our school was coming to pick us up because something had gone wrong with the applications and they needed us back at the school as soon as possible to sign more papers. We had about an hour before our driver would reach Kenting, so we all headed for the beach so the three of us could jump in the ocean before having to go home. Drenched to our satisfaction, we separated from the rest of the group for the long drive back... three hours later, our papers signed, and back at our apartment...I kick back, my mind at peace knowing that I am - still - a legal resident of Taiwan.
6 comments:
It's hard to believe that you've already been gone for 60 days - not that you haven't been missed here, though! Chatting with you a couple of times since you've been gone has probably made it seem shorter :)
Maybe you could get exported to Mongolia.
John
Please...
We could hardly believe it ourselves, Mrs. Anderson...and I love all our talks too! <3
And John...I think our only exportation options are Vietnam or Thailand :)
NO EXPORTING PERIOD!!!!!!!
THE DAD
aww i love your fish names! you gotta put pictures :D :D
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