Laugh it up...

I swear that, at this very moment, I am the laughing stock of the New Zealand Consulate. Jacqueline Fleet is one big inside office joke!

I've been panicking because I hadn't received my visa from them in the mail yet. All that had sent me back was my passport, a receipt of payment and my offer of employment letter from Karl in Te Anau.

So I emailed "Jackie", the girl I had been in contact with in the High Commission, asking if she had anything left to receive from me, as I had not heard anything from her recently about whether or not my visa was going to be approved.

She emailed me back saying that my visa had already been processed and sent on November 24th, so that I should be worrying if I can't find it. She asked if I had received my passport and other documents. I thought "well yeah but there was no visa in it"...

And then it hit me. "Jacquie, open your dang passport..."

Of course - since just after my birthday - I've had it all along. It's in the "Visas" section of my passport, glued into the page and filled in neatly. DUH!

When I emailed her back, I apologized for having wasted her time and told her that I felt quite silly. I wished her a Merry Christmas and promised never to be a bother to her again. When I got offline there was a message on the machine. It was from a wonderfully accented man from the New Zealand Consulate. This was his love message to me:

"Regah-din' Jeck-lynn's in-queery abay-at heuh Vees-ar, eef she's received heuh pess-port, Oy suggest she tayke a look aynd she'w foind heuh Vees-ar in they-ah"

If you can understand that, good for you. If not, here's how it translates into the much-less-attractive Canadian accent:

"Regarding Jacquelines inquiry about her Visa, if she has recieved her passport, I suggest she take a look and she'll find her Visa in there"

I GET TO HEAR THAT ACCENT 24/7!!! LIKE, ALL AROUND ME!!!

Such a beauty. I'm in love with the man at the Consulate. A friend once asked me if she could be in love with a man she's never met (after talking to my dad on the phone for the first time last Christmas season), and now I know that it's quite possible.

However, if that's the case, I'll be in love with many a man when I'm surrounded by Kiwi accents in less than 3 weeks!!! YEE-IKES! I won't have to count how many proposals I get (like Cindy), I'll be counting how many I'VE proposed to!

Ok well that's my story. I'm a tool. And in love. The end...hehe.

Oyrver & Ay-ot
(Over & Out...teehee)