Immigration

     Immigration. This is a place where I have "wasted" more than a few hours of my life when I don't want to be there and seem to accomplish nothing, but alas, every now and again I have a decent time there. Let me explain- I turned in papers in March to get my visa, they said it should be ready by the end of the month, and I still don't have it back. Need I say more? I feel like they're playing games, making up new requirements and searching for ridiculous things to make me do to have me waste more time and money. It's not my favorite place, and frankly, the people there can be down right annoying. But if I can get past all that, I actually have a decent time waiting in line/waiting for my name to be called.
     This is the place where everyone trying to come to or leave the country for any chunk of time has to go to file paperwork. This means for tons of people of all sorts of nationalities to wind up there- obviously Bolivians, Brazilians, Argentinians, Koreans, Americans, Chileans- you name it. You know what? God made people BEAUTIFUL! I love seeing all the different shapes of faces, colors of hair/skin/eyes, hearing the different languages and different Spanish or English accents of people from different areas. I am already a fan of "people watching" and you could hardly find a better place to do it. I'm so amused at people's inability to wait/listen to directions. I feel bad for the lady at the desk- what part of "Sientese" (take a seat) do you people not understand?? I know you want to figure out your paperwork- dude, that's why we're ALL freaking sitting here. You pestering the lady is just slowing it down for all of us, INCLUDING yourself. If you didn't want to wait so long, get here earlier! Learned that lesson today- yeah, wash laundry AFTER your trip to immigration. Ahh well, I didn't have anything else on my schedule for the day.
      On a side note, they told me to come back next wednesday or thursday to see if what I had turned in was acceptable. So I guess the trips will continue another week or two.... Immigration, what a love hate relationship we have.