1) Move to Honduras
2) Begin application for residency.
3) Believing that you will only be there for one year state that you would like residency for one year.
4) Teach.
5) Wait for residency.
6) Really enjoy teaching
7) Decide to stay for another year.
8) Fill in more paperwork.
9) Wait
10) Wait some more while all workers in migration office are fired and new people are hired.
11) Wait some more after paperwork is stolen
12) Visit various places in Honduras and learn that if you had residency card you would pay Honduran prices and not "white prices."
13) Get frustrated.
14) More waiting.
15) Sign some more paperwork.
16) Decide that you are not going to return for another year.
17) Teach some more.
18) Learn that your residency needs to be ready within a month or you will have to start all over again.
19) FINALLY: go to capital to sign paperwork/
20) Get fingerprinted.
20a) Have powder bleach poured directly into your hand by the lady to wash off the ink stains.
20b) Proceed across government building with white powder in palm of hand, thinking, this cannot be happening.
21) Receive reciept for residency pickup within 60 days.
22) Realize that the date to pick up residency is exactlly to the DAY that you will be leaving the country for good.
23) Receive one year residency, two years after application.
24) Laugh.
2 comments:
wow. *smacks forehead*
Well, if it makes you feel any better, we tried to use our residency card to get the cheaper rate lots of different places (and so have lots of other people with residency), and it never worked!! But, here's to trying! We picked up our residency card last year a few weeks before we left, with no intentions of ever moving back - and here we are....God's sense of humour, I guess :)
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