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Wednesday July 18, 2018
Wednesday – this is my day –
This is the temperature INSIDE the house, and note
the time…
First we went to the Notary, again, because our
Visa facilitator insists that the Notary would somehow legalize our marriage
certificate. The Notary vehemently said
a flat NO, it needs to be apostilled, which is what we told to the friggin’ Registro
Civil in Cuenca… but they had insisted that the “legalizacion” stamp and
sticker was how they do things now.….. obviously not good enough for neighboring
countries… Now I need to get one of my
good friends, Gustavo, because he is close to their offices, in Cuenca to get
us an actual apostilled copy……………. I am
ready to kill these supposed experts….
Or… they want to try to change to a pensioner Visa
which will involve getting a “Notarized” statement of earnings (I think) from
Canada….. Then she sends me someone’s
blurry documents from Ontario on WhatsApp as a sample!!! They honestly have ZERO inkling of
confidentiality here…!!! From one gong
show to the next today, I have just about had my bellyful of South America.
Then we went to KIA to see what is happening with
the car because we are not getting any response from 3 messages to salesman #2,
Carlos. We got to talk to the Manager,
Luis, who once worked for Chrysler in Montreal.
He says the car now won’t be ready until mid-next-week (OK by me) and
that it will come with the government mandated emergency kit. He supposedly will send me details of
someone who could install after-market body-side mouldings.
Next we tackled the ripped recliner by going to
HomeCenter. They sent someone to view it
at our house at 2pm and we should know in a day or two what they decide..
I have packaged the Buzzer Matricula documents in
an envelope and will take them to ServiEntrega to get them to Cuenca. The last time we sent a $20 girdle it ended
up costing us $122…. They have a licence
to print money….
UPDATE: Well I sent off the Matricula papers for Buzzer
late afternoon and it was $35 for a couple of ounces , mostly cardboard for
stiffness. We went to the main terminal
of ServiEntrega and they don’t handle International packages…… Grrrrr. So we had to walk a few blocks to a tiny
place in the nearby LA 14 mall where they had one kid handling it all. If my hair wasn’t white yesterday it sure is
today.
Gustavo responded to my email with the documents
that we can apparently go to the Ecuadorian consulate in Cali and they will
apostille our documents… Can’t raise
them by phone (small wonder) so we will make a 2-hour bus ride in the morning
and see what happens…. Apparently they would not release any documents to him without a power-of-attorney... Everybody has their hand out.
I am still fighting daily with my intermittent
wi-fi on my phone and my NetTalk. It is
literally a foot from the router and won’t stay connected……. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…. Re-start after re-start of all equipment is
not doing the trick.
That was the day’s excitement.
Al
