This is South Africa: Load Shedding
Sitting in the restaurant waiting for your takeaway food and all of a sudden all the power goes out. Is it a blackout? Nope, it is the regularly scheduled load […]
forms, lines, offices, and more involved in moving to another country
Sitting in the restaurant waiting for your takeaway food and all of a sudden all the power goes out. Is it a blackout? Nope, it is the regularly scheduled load […]
I’ve obtained visas to live and work in other countries (See: the lengthy application to go to New Zealand and the laborious process to get a MVV visa to work […]
Once again I had the opportunity to attend an international conference to present my nerdy science research. This time I traveled to exotic Brazil! My meeting was in Florianopolis, Brazil […]
When I booked my flights in and out of the Netherlands I was unaware of the biggest party of the year fell on April 30th, which was going to happen […]
I have seen a bit of activity on my blog related to visas so I thought I would post some information that I gleaned after reading about the new and […]
I came over to NL to work on my PhD research and randomly selected a date to return home. Turns out that date was April 25th, only 5 days before […]
Bureaucracy (noun) is defined by the Oxford English dictionary as “excessively complicated administrative procedure” and this word so accurately describes my moving to Holland process. From before I left through […]
The process to obtain a MVV visa, which allows me to stay in the Netherlands for more than 3 months, was quite a long process. I began the discussion for […]
The next journey is almost upon me. In January I was granted money to go to the Netherlands to work with a PhD committee member on my research. It has […]
Thus far, I have always been able to obtain a tourist visa at the point of entry into the country. In Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia we just paid our money […]