Tuesday was relatively uneventful- just another meeting with the exchange students about the classes we wanted to take. That and a crash course in Chilean history by our Chilean Language and Culture Professor. A lot to take in for one day, but at the very least we were relieved that we would be starting classes and that there were no other foreseeable obstacles preventing this. Whew. Now, Erin attributes this stroke of luck to divine intervention. But to me, the funny thing about divine intervention is that it only seems to happen (for many people, not talking about Erin here just for the record) when they are thankful that things are going right. Erin thanks God for helping us to stay in Valdivia and I totally respect that because she may well be right! But, I’m just curious to know why God was screwing with us in the first place. Will someone ask Him and get back to me. I'd really appreciate it. Geez. For those of you who know me, I'm not a 'woe is me' kind of person. I never play the sympathy card and I'm very much so a realist when it comes to weighing out the positives and negatives of a situation. More pointedly, I'm not asking for a religious debate of any kind. Honestly. Please don't plague me with such things. I have more important things to worry about like Bachmann's influence on society...But, to come to my main point. I honestly think that sometimes, you just get lucky, and the hand of God has nothing to do with it, unless you have a Full house and he has a pair of twos.
Today- I almost blew a gasket. We went to the Student mobility office to pick up our LONG AWAITED student ids to find that these spectacular masterpieces of man…were actually a piece of card stock, folded in half, our name typed on them with a stamp, and a picture glued to the front. WOW really? No wonder they freaking took 4 weeks to make! This was a freaking ARTS AND CRAFTS project for the children in KINDER at the local colegio for CRYING OUT LOUD. Not only this, we were also informed that we had to go to the library to get a barcode which would allow us access to the library and internet. THEN we had to go downtown and get it laminated. I was calm…very calm…UNTIL we got lost in the library. And then I flipped, and I should apologize to Katherine because she was probably a little traumatized. I went off about WHY we had to get the barcode, WHY they didn’t do it for us, WHY our IDs are a piece of CRAP, WHY we are lost in the library because no one even had enough COURTESY to show us where to go, WHY we have to get it laminated, WHY- with the knowledge that a regular student ID card takes 2 months to process- couldn’t we have just gotten one of those, WHY we are going to have to wait ANOTHER day because the man at the library was too darn LAZY to give us the barcodes TODAY, WHY DOES THIS SYSTEM SUCK HAVE THESE PEOPLE EVER HEARD OF EFFICIENCY AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
That being said. We headed downtown. I got a snack (see Kelly’s golden rules…) and I calmed down substantially. We picked up some postcards and grabbed some stamps from the post office and we walked by the lobos and life goes on Kelly life goes on…
I’m obtaining a level of patience living here I think…My no nonsense attitude has had no choice but to sit by the wayside and accept things that I cannot control. But I’ll tell you what. This wayside place- it sucks.
Rant is complete. I’m off to go start my second Jeffrey Archer novel- for a conservative, he writes pretty darn good mystery novels. JUST KIDDING y’all.
chao
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