YAYYYYYYYYYY!
Big big big day, the gears of the U.S.government grind exceedingly slowly, but this day brought a bunch of official papers to our mailbox.
I'm an alien, I'm a LEGAL alien...... Green Card!!!!!!!!!!! Yayyyyyyyyyy!
Of course, it's not without conditions... Carry this card at all times. (and don't lose it?) Well, like my social security card I'll laminate a copy and carry that, keeping the original in a safe place.
And it's only valid to 2016. Before then I have to become a citizen or aply to get restrictions lifted. No, I have no idea what that means, so don't ask.
All should be well in the home of the brave and the land of the free. None of that: "Papieren, Bitte!" "Show your papers boy!" stuff.
Seriously though, everybody's been quite welcoming. Well, a lot of people think I come from New England, that's those who don't think I'm Australian.
I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.
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Congratulations!! How's the shoulder mending?
ReplyDeleteWell, congratulations, Soub! Well done! (There's nothing wrong with being mistaken for an Aussie! *smile*)
ReplyDeleteI, too, hope your shoulder has mended well and you are now pain-free.
Well some have thought you a bit alien anyway so it's nice this is now official!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to the papers in 2016, an entire ream of them I bet.
How is the arm?
Well done, mate! You Australians have come a long way. Greetings from Holland, capital of Denmark.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! It's a first step, but a good one.
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