Okay so another travelling
abroad story....
Last time the polish people gave me a hard time getting the visa for a time that i
didn't enjoy in a very boring
period of my travelling life other then the conference.
Anyways this time was easier but lets say the story from the beginning....
1. Got an email about
faci position in Turkey's biggest
national conference (
ATEMKO )
2. Applied for the conference send my application on the 11
th and deadline was 19
th3. Waited waited and waited even more
4. The day of
announcing the
faci team came ( 20
th) my f**king email is not working
aiesec mail is down for more then 14 hours ( i was freaking out )
5. Got email that i got accepted
yaaaaaaaaaay6. Got the invitation letter a couple of days later
7. Went to college to get some papers
8.Went to the embassy on
Monday and they asked me to wait and i waited for a couple of hours (
hmmmmm they
didn't do that with me the last couple of times )
9. Was asked to come
the second day to get my passport ,
hmmm am i going to take the
isa and why did he make me wait for 2 hours then ????
10. Went the second day to get my passport and got it with the visa in it (
yyaaayyy that was easy )
11. Tuesday going to
Cairo, missed my train took a mini bus that was pulled over in the middle of the
desert for a speed ticket
12. Waited for one hour and half to find another ride
13. Found one but it will take me to the other side of
Cairo which is so far from where i am going and where i was suppose to go
14. Went got my plane ticket ( 1650 pounds,
hmmm that's not so bad )
15. Went to my college branch in
Cairo to sign a paper and it took them 30
mins to do so
16. Went to the ministry of internal affairs to stamp the paper
17. Went to army office, was there at 2:30 and they close at 3
18. got rejected in the beginning cause i am not allowed to travel in the middle of the
academic year( damn i had to finish my army s**t after graduation
19. Talked with the guy for a while and he was kind enough to accept my papers and was asked to
come to second day to take my
permission ( hey that was easier then the first time )
20. Kept looking for a place to stay and went to one of the trainees
21. Went the second day to get my permission to find out that the major who signs these papers
didn't feel like go
ing that day so no papers today and i have to stay one more day
22. The guy ( not the same one from the first day ) ask about my name and say that i have to translate the
invitation letter ( why the f**k
didn't he tell me that yesterday )
23. kept looking for a translation office for couple of hours and
couldn't find
24. went back
trying to tell the guy that i can translate it myself, he refuses plus he was closing everything ( come
tomorrow he says )
25. Went and found a
translation office which took him 7 hours to finish and had lots of mistakes
that i had to give a small
English course so he would do it again.
26. Went today morning and gave them the papers and made sure that everything is there
27. Was asked to come on
Sunday ( YOU STUPID SOB I AM LEAVING SATURDAY )
28. The nice guy comes and tells me to wait and he will finish everything for me but i have to sit and shut up
until he finishes and it
doesn't matter how much time i will get it.
29. Got my permission at 3 Pm after 6 hours of wait doing nothing at all but smoking
30. Took the first train and came back to
Alex31. Now i have like zillion other things to do so i can leave on
SaturdayWell i am lucky that i manage to leave
every time , but does it have to be like that, its really stupid
I've never
hared that any
country in the world do such things to people so they can travel, they make me feel that we are 100 people in the country not 75,000,000 and they even need more people to get into the army.
Leave them , its not like everyone will go out of the country and never comes back, why do you
always think that we will escape ????
GOD I HATE WHEN STUFF LIKE THAT HAPPENS....
Anyway i am leaving on
Saturday and really happy for my first international
faci experience and going back to turkey and see all my
FriendsStay
toned for more news and pictures :):):)
ADIOS
