Saturday, March 29, 2014

Visa Application and Cheating at Coffee

Visa Application.
The words that have stricken fear in my heart since Day 1 of this long, paper-work-filled process. I don't even really know why, except that AFS always talks about this part of the process as long and arduous.
Turns out, they break it down into four neat little categories for us (I think). I received the first part on Thursday the 27th. Although it did require a couple of notarizations and apostilles* it does not seem too complex. However, this is only part one of four and who knows what the rest of them will entail (my fingers are crossed for more easy paper-work).
*An apostille (as I recently learned) is a sort of national notarization. Once the document has a state-"sanctioned"notarization, we send it to the secretary of state and they give it an apostille. This means that all countries who have an "Apostille Agreement" with the U.S. accept this document as notarized. (By the way, does anybody know the rule about *'s? I do not know if I should have put this section of the post at the VERY bottom, or if the middle is okay???)
On to less paper-work-y matters.
Coffee is apparently more prominent in teens' life in Spain than it is here. Now, this would be no problem for those of us applicants that actually like coffee. Unfortunately, this is not me. Besides the smell of coffee, I am pretty adversed to it. HOWEVER! (yes, I just made that it's own sentence; I felt like it needed an exclamation point.) When you put one part espresso and one part sweetened condensed milk and mix it up to a desert-like concoction of yummy-ness it is REALLY good. This magically delicious drink/desert is called a Café BonBon, and if I am going to be expected to get coffee socially in Spain, this is what I will order (whether or not it is considered cheating).
Well, that was my take on visas and coffee.
Adios for now!

1 comment:

  1. Beware! Café BonBon is a gateway stronger coffee beverages.

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