FRO

We spent all afternoon Monday and Tuesday in the Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) attempting to get our paperwork. They give you a registration letter that you're supposed to keep with you at all times and you need it to get out of the country, so it's pretty important to get this taken care of right away. Since T's company takes everyone there to register they told him to just bring me w/ them, so I had to keep explaining that I don't work there when people were asking me which office I was from - haha.

The FRO is located in the old airport here - it's totally empty since they built the new airport (where we flew into when we arrived) but they set up this office in the middle of the old domestic terminal. Basically there's a bunch of white plastic folding chairs, like the ones people put on their patio, and some desks off to the side where the employees handle the paperwork. All of the closed up concession stands and airline windows are there, it's really weird. No air conditioning, but they do have fans at least. On Monday we left T's office at 1 pm and I didn't get back to the hotel until 5:40; today was worse and I didn't get home until 6:40. The red tape is worse than the DMV! There was a problem with my application so we had to come back today, which sucks because T already had his papers. Since my visa is attached to him as an accompanying spouse, he had to be there for me to go (no idea why - they didn't ask him to do anything and he just sat there all day and had to miss five-plus hours of work).

So yeah, I've basically done nothing the past two days but sit in an abandoned airport! At least I got to meet some of his coworkers. I hadn't really met anyone since I'm here at the hotel all the time and no one really interacts at breakfast. I also outlined the first 15 chapters of my next book, and read more of "A Discovery of Witches," so I did get something accomplished.

Today's video is from a film called Golmaal 3 - yep, they have sequels here, too.