1. contact the Bolivian embassy to find out which documents I need to get the f*** visa 2. get an email written partly in Spanish, partly in really approximate French, with really vague information 3. make some more phone calls to complete the lack of details provided in the mail 4. find a sworn translator 5. go to see him with all the documents to find out that, inspite of all my phone calls, I still missed important things because the employees at the embassy are incompetent. Luckily, my translator could help! Thanks señor Gonzalez Conclusion If you have to get a visa, always check http://diplomatie.belgium.be/fr/Services/Legalisation_de_documents/ I should have done it in the beginning but I didn't think about it because I assumed that the people at the embassy would know better. Never assume such things! Always go check what the 'diplomacy page' of your country says. And try to find it all there because it's impossible to talk to someone on the phone to give you some more information in case one of the documents you need is not in the list on their website. IMPOSSIBLE! So now that I think I have all the documents I need (couldn't contact anyone about the last one so I'll do as I think is the best), I have to first have my diploma, medical certificate and criminal record authenticated in three different places and then, go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to have them all authenticated AGAIN, and then, finally, to the embassy. Yeay! moodoscope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnOGp5auRQ
Still so many posts to create but in the meantime, just a few random pics taken in Bolivia, Peru, Vietnam, Argentina and Belgium, in just a year. moodoscope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw8-Yt2Ai3Q
moodoscope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1dz6_u2JI
moodoscope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7spOVeypVI
moodoscope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPsvlDMwbVg
In Liège - As I was cycling back home in the middle of the night, I passed an empty busstop where someone had apparently disappeared, leaving her shoes behind. If someone knows or has an idea as to what happened to her, drop me a line. One of the hypotheses is that she grew wings and took flight, leaving her shoes as they each smoked a cigarette righty then crushed on the floor. This morning as I cycled passed this stop again, they were still waiting, though not for the bus.
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