June 15, 2013

• Report # 1012

  Hey everyone, I hope that you’ve all had a great week. The weekend will be super short for me this time around as I’ll be working today, my first day of work in place of the two days I took off to spend with Rocío. I’ve worked four days since she left and I definitely feel better now. Obviously I still miss her, but after the first full day I got over the sadness of her being gone and got back to carrying on with my life. I know that she had a great time while she was here and that she’s having an amazing time in Washington now and I’m sure meeting many other cool people, so I’m happy knowing that she is enjoying her trip so much and that she spent four days with me. They were an amazing four days and something I’ll remember for my whole life.

  One of the reasons I felt so sad was that I felt after Rocío left I had nothing more to look forward to. I was just working and I really had no plan for my life and once again I felt so alone. I’ve just come home from work, and had my Tim Hortons and continued seeing episodes of Cachito de Cielo, and just relaxing during the evenings. I will definitely have to get back to running again as I haven’t done that at all lately, aside from running up to Tim Hortons on Monday morning. Something very strange happened in these last few days, and I’m not sure if it was just a very odd coincidence or just something incredibly odd that happened.

  I was talking to a girl from Guadalajara on the internet and I was explaining to her about the whole situation with my work visa for Mexico. I had told her about how the process had been going on for so many months and that because I hadn’t received any news in over four months and that the lady from the company had not responded to my last two emails that I had really started to lose hope that I would ever get the work visa. She told me that she has a friend who works in the migration offices in Monterrey and that she would talk to him to find out what is happening. I told her I really didn’t think she would be able to find anything out, but she insisted on talking to her friend.

  I gave her my visa information and that day she talked with her friend. The following day she told me that her friend told her that I was about to get the visa authorization in the next day, and that I would have to go to the Mexican consulate in Vancouver sometime before June 27. All of this was so shocking to me as I couldn’t understand how this could be after not hearing anything for so long and how someone who I didn’t even know more than two weeks on the computer was able to find all of this information out. She even told me that she would try to call the lady from Teleperformance today as well.

  She wasn’t able to get a hold of the lady from Telepeformance, which didn’t surprise me as she always has been incredibly difficult to reach, but I got an email from that lady and she attached the visa authorization to the email, saying I have to make an appointment and go to the Mexican consulate in Vancouver sometime before June 27. I really couldn’t believe all of this had suddenly happened, just when I was at the point of literally giving up on any hopes of getting the visa. I have no clue if it was just a crazy coincidence that a person I happened to just talk to on the computer from Guadalajara who knew someone who worked at the migration offices in Monterrey really helped my case by talking to him or not… but wow what a story.

  Unfortunately I got all of this news this evening, and now the Mexican consulate in Vancouver is closed for the weekend, but I’ll definitely be calling them on Monday morning to see what I need to do and to set up an appointment. After waiting so very long for all of this, it has all come up so shockingly and so suddenly… I don’t even know what to think. Ultimately it was my goal to have an opportunity to live and work in Mexico, and I am now one step closer to doing that, so I am happy about that, it’s just unfortunate the way that things have worked out. Knowing what I know now, I probably should have left Mexico months earlier…. maybe the week before Christmas.

  If I had gotten home earlier, maybe I could have found a job here much faster, and I could have had an extra three or four months of working, plus the money I would have saved by not spending those last 2 months in Mexico, but obviously I can’t change that now. I just started working on May 21, not even a month ago, and depending on what happens, I might have to give my notice very soon. It’s unfortunate that I had spent so much money and not had a chance to make very much again, but I’ll just have to be very responsible with the money I do have when I go to Mexico. It would have been nice to have the over $ 9,000 like last time, but nothing I can do about it now.

  I will certainly not give my notice at work until I’m 100 % sure that I’ll get the work visa as I wouldn’t want to quit too far in advance. I am hoping that I’ll have enough time to give two weeks notice and spend a week in Calgary to visit with my grandmother and aunt before I go as well, but I’ll have to see what happens. As of right now, there is so much I don’t know, but I can imagine I’ll find out a lot more on Monday, or at least when I have the chance to go to the Mexican consulate in Vancouver. This is what I wanted, an opportunity, and I’m a step closer to that opportunity after so much time, so I am certainly happy, and very appreciative of all the work that people have done to help get me to this point.

  So I will have to wait a few days and see what is going to happen. There will be so much to think about, so much to plan, and so much to worry about…. but it has got me to a point I wanted to be at for so long, so I have to be ready ! Speaking of ready, I really wish someone would be ready to take down this awful house pictured below:

  

  

  

  

  This house is right beside a bunch of town homes that are being built at the corner of my street, yet it never gets torn down as it is supposedly some sort of heritage home. I don’t know if the politicians of my city know what the definition of heritage is, but this house surely doesn’t fit the bill. It’s somewhat old, but as I’ve always thought, just because something is old, doesn’t mean it’s worth keeping. This house has caught on fire a number of times, and is very much damaged, fixing it would not be cheap, and if it was fixed up, then it would be modernized, becoming even less than a heritage house than it already is.

  I’m all for cities preserving parts of their histories, but when something is really not that amazing and is more of an eye sore than a part of history, I think it just needs to go. I’m sure every city has some buildings like this one, but really with money being tight in so many places, I just don’t see any sense in using any of that money to preserve or fix up something that really isn’t breath taking in any sense of the word. So I vote to tear down this house and just move on and put effort into really promoting some better heritage sites, but seeing as this house has been standing there for so many years in such a decrepit condition long before I’ve lived in this neighbourhood, I doubt that’s going to happen…. one can only hope !

  For the next question:

  What does your city have in terms of heritage buildings or historical places ? In your opinion are they all really worth preserving, or are some of them better off being torn down ?

  Well that’s all I have today. I will leave you all with my pictures from Seattle last week. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Tuesday, bye for now.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

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