Sep 12 2009
Last Weekend, my Japanese friend “Hiro” traveled back to Tokyo for his Labor Day vacation. When I heard about the plan, an idea came into my mind right away. Why don’t we do something special and give Ladybird a surprise. So I asked Hiro to be my personal “Worldwide Express Boy”.
A package was ready to be delivered from New York to Ladybird’s hands, and hopefully it could warm her heart a little bit. My “Worldwide Express Boy” did not disappoint me, he traveled thousand miles back to Tokyo, with a smooth contact, the package was perfectly put in her hands. She called me later on to say how much she likes the present and otherwise she also asked Hiro to carry something to me. What! That surprised me. She didn’t feel anything wrong to trouble my friend at all, or maybe he already became our mutual friend and kind of connection between us. I’m happy because I got my own present!
I was happy to see everything’s going well, but also worried about what this action could result in. To create any good feeling between us is not my intention but I can’t help doing that because there was too much emotion/mixed emotion/ accumulated inside me, I am not strong enough to hide the feeling, and no one says it is easy.
My visa is going to expire on 23rd of next month. That means I have to leave this country by that day, but I don’t want to. So seriously, the very first thing I needed to take care is to renew my visa. Frankly, the feasible solutions are various. I can fill up an application form and renew my visa right here, it sounds easy and simple, but one thing I don’t understand is each applicant has to pay $300 to homeland Defense Division besides $200 administration fee. Otherwise, it doesn’t guarantee how long the stay permit they will give to an applicant is, it depends on financial demonstration paper. According to the shortage of my bank account balance, things did not work out in this way. Therefore, my plan B is reenter US customs to get another 6 months stay permit, that’s a popular way to prolong the stay with tourist visa, and also economic. So I went to Canadian Consulate General office to apply for Canadian visa, the officer told me that there were a substantial percentage of applicants were denied because being outside of their countries. Why! I thought Canada is a friendly country. It is really cold, I felt sorry for Taiwanese people. We work so hard and get this treatment in return in international relationship. Our diplomats are not doing their jobs well. Anyway, if I had to pay the visa fee plus the travel expanse, somehow it was not reasonable, don’t even mention about the risk of “substantial percentage”. Things did not work out this way, either! Then, I thought about what the nearest country is I can go just with Taiwan passport, though there are not too many selections. UK is the answer, and one of my friends is studying master degree in Durham right now. If she could keep me in her house, I can save a whole bunch of money from lodging. Right now, I’m still waiting for her reply. If the answer is positive, it will be awesome that I’m going to UK! I’d never ever considered it could happen one day in my life. That’s what I like the saying about the life is a journey because one could never know what one is going to find!
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