The official price of a Canadian visa

$130

The REAL price of a Canadian visa

$130 for the visa

$.90 for the money order because the consulate doesn't accept personal checks or credit cards

$3 parking fee for the first visit to the Canadian Consulate only to find out that they handle visas from 8:30-10:30 am Mondays - Thursdays

$16 parking fee ( Read more... )

I'm teaching English in South Korea right now. I'm an American citizen and I have been here for three weeks. I have been trying NOT to be a stupid foreigner. During orientation week I didn't have any sandals to wear. I found some pink cloth sandals for 3000 won, about $3 US. They are those massaging ones. I wore them around Seoul. I never ( Read more... )

Hi my name is Dana and I'm a USA-ian currently living in Groningen, The Netherlands.

I have a problem and I wanted to know some opinions.

What do you do when 90% of a country happily celebrates a Holiday with a character in blackface. I wont explain it here but you can take a look at the discussion here on the Go Dutch communityMy boyfriend is ( Read more... )

sorry, another america-centric post

but a lot of us american expats need it in this time of darkness and this was cute.

wash label for american fashion line sold in francewhen i was in italy i saw a lot of t shirts proclaiming "i did not vote for berlusconi" which was also cute, and comforting, and a nice way to improve international relations ( Read more... )

http://www.apologiesaccepted.com/index.html

My husband and I saw one as the bus went by a stop, and there it was. (Later we took a picture, this quite close to our home.) ( John Kerry's shining face in all his glory. )

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While working on Borneo- A Philipino Engineer (He is a Good Guy), recommended that I eat a little dirt from the front yard of a woman's house before entering so she couldn't put a hex on me.

Are there a bunch of these.?.
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This probably isn't all that appropriate, but I laughed so hard when I found this that I had to put it on here.

My apologies in advance to anyone I've offended.

Bash Quote

The following material may be offensive to some and I would normally try to balance out the opinions with more positive stuff, but this being an “expat” site I’m assuming we’re more or less on the same page ( Read more... )

I was reading this article on CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/04/04/bt.humor.trip.reut/index.html

I realised I have been most of my life quite a sarcastic woman. My family, from India, has been as well. We are quite different from the typical 'Indian' family in many ways. As moving abroad this habit of sarcasm was ok, as most of my friends were ( Read more... )