...This is John.
...Hi John, this is Nigel with Australian Immigration. You basically have two choices. You can leave the country so we can finalize your student visa or you can pay the 5 or 600 more dollars and lodge a new one from within Australia. Good luck with flights by the way. As you know, its spring break, so your tickets will cost you two legs and an arm.
I tell you this much. I am not going to give them the satisfaction of buying ANOTHER student visa. I had planned for research this week on my dissertation, but it looks like I will be spending a bit of time in Auckland instead. Although it would have been nice to get to Indonesia or one of the islands in the pacific, there are worse ways to spend a forced vacation than being in Auckland. So I head out tomorrow (Monday morning) and return on Thursday. Since I was in a hurry that last two times I was there, I am looking forward to not having a single thing on my agenda other than fulfilling the requirement of being in another country while my visa gets approved.
It will be fun. Through some people that I have met in Sydney, I will have at least a couch to sleep on and wheatbix to eat for the next couple of days. I will bring my camera and upload some pictures.
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See if you can get some more of that amazing pizza! And give Auckland a big hug for me.
ReplyDeleteJust for the record, I do have it in writing that you were going to try for one blog post a week.
ReplyDeleteI'm not telling you what I know, just what I heard...
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