"Permitting the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations."
President George Bush, speaking to Knesset 2008
Hmm, I think we have to admit failure on that one...at least if you agree with Chomsky.
Today Michael drove me in our new car (new being a relative term, as the car dates from 1983), a mercedes, to Interpol's Peruvian office, where my fingerprints were taken and my teeth inspected. My file is now hopefully on its way to some vague place where it should meet with the void that is my criminal record. In one week, I'll be able to go to what is rapidly becoming number one on my personal most-visited-places-in-Lima list; DIGEMIN, the office for migratory issues. There, I'll try to acquire the sought-after migratory classification "student", which is one of the "resident" types of visa. In other words, I'll qualify for a "Tarjeta de extranjería", a "foreigness card". Great!
Things that still make me feel like a foreigner:
President George Bush, speaking to Knesset 2008
Hmm, I think we have to admit failure on that one...at least if you agree with Chomsky.
Today Michael drove me in our new car (new being a relative term, as the car dates from 1983), a mercedes, to Interpol's Peruvian office, where my fingerprints were taken and my teeth inspected. My file is now hopefully on its way to some vague place where it should meet with the void that is my criminal record. In one week, I'll be able to go to what is rapidly becoming number one on my personal most-visited-places-in-Lima list; DIGEMIN, the office for migratory issues. There, I'll try to acquire the sought-after migratory classification "student", which is one of the "resident" types of visa. In other words, I'll qualify for a "Tarjeta de extranjería", a "foreigness card". Great!
Things that still make me feel like a foreigner:
- believing that people will arrive on time, and arriving on time myself (blasted cultural conditioning)
- balking at the sugar content of Peruvian vanilla ice cream and then checking the price of Ben and Jerry's only to find its ca 300% more expensive and realising that is why it's covered in ice and sitting at the back of the supermarket freezer
- reacting to the shocking language of the tabloids ("bus crash left 15 stiff ones and 3 injured"). Daily mirror ain't got nothing on them!
