avalon

goin_south says on Sep 6, 2008, 22:03:

Hola Avalon... I always wonder, how and why a colombianita is living in a place like....Germany. Alwiederzehn :-))

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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avalon says on Sep 7, 2008, 01:36:

Hi Goingsouth! :) Thanks for welcoming me to PBH
Here I am working and living in Germany (for now).

Take care!

"He is able who thinks he is able" - Buddha

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Peter (Moderator) (Trustee board) (Dev team) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 7, 2008, 05:29:

avalon says on Sep 7, 2008, 06:13:

Hi Peter!

Yes Germany has its good and bad things, like any other country ;)

Munich is great, lots of people from all over the world, and the Oktoberfest is approaching!

Where in Germany do your friends live?

"He is able who thinks he is able" - Buddha

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goin_south says on Sep 7, 2008, 11:00:

In eeuu, we sometimes here the phrase: Have a Cold One on me! (cerveza)
In Deutschland, do they say: "Have a Warm One on me!" ?

Hey, Avalon... maybe you can take some of that 'Macht Schnell' back to Colombia and help speed up a few things... like visa processing... jej

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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avalon says on Sep 14, 2008, 08:47:

lol Maybe I will, but German bureaucracy is not as "macht schnell" as one might expect...I have several binders full of papers to confirm that ;-).

I don't think people say "have a warm one on me" hehehe, but there's always the occasional glühwein in the Christmas markets.

The Oktoberfest is starting in a week, so plenty of prost's will be heard around here!

Hope you get that visa of yours sorted out soon :)

"He is able who thinks he is able" - Buddha

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goin_south says on Sep 14, 2008, 10:22:

Hola Avalon,

I wasn't thinking of myself, so much as just the general population - on the visa thing.
And, on the other thing there... I guess it's THE WORLD OVER.... with things being SO SLOW.... NOW THAT WE HAVE COMPUTERS... jajjj.. IRONIC, isn't it?

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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avalon says on Sep 15, 2008, 04:34:

Yup, computers would and should definitely speed things up, but in Europe and much of Latin America, public institutions are still much dependent on paper documents! >_<

Check out the following article http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,417486,00.html about Germany's obsession with binders.

As for the visa process, it's tedious anywhere you go.

But that's life, so I'll stop ranting about this and other things for now ;-)

"He is able who thinks he is able" - Buddha

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