Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 81 of 96 07 July 2012 at 8:56am | IP Logged |
How is the move going?
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 82 of 96 07 July 2012 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
Everything's at a complete standstill at the moment. After filling out a mountain of paperwork and dealing with a series of bureaucratic blunders, we're still waiting on the visas before we can even start to make arrangements for moving to Hawai'i.
I thought it'd be relatively easy once I'd dotted all the 'i's and crossed all the 't's as a law-abiding Brit (after all, we're supposed to have that "special relationship" with the US). The reality, however, is more like "special needs", especially for a half-Irish guy with a Russian wife and a background in Arabic computational linguistics.
Edited by Teango on 07 July 2012 at 3:39pm
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 83 of 96 07 July 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged |
Poor dear, you both have my deepest sympathy. I have been 5 times to the Russian embassy the last two weeks, and got our visas yesterday - leaving tomorrow. I feel I know the people at the consulate so well by now, that I considered inviting the girls working there over for a drink...
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 84 of 96 08 July 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged |
I feel your pain. Applying for a student visa for Croatia has been such a headache! And I won't even get the damn thing until I've been living in Croatia for a month already... Good luck with yours!
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 85 of 96 08 July 2012 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
Thanks guys! I'm really glad they finally granted you a Russian visa, Cristina. Roll on the big adventure! And ellasevia...I hope everything gets sorted out for you soon too, mate. I'm already missing your colourful language logs. :)
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Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian
| Message 86 of 96 21 July 2012 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
Teaanngooooooooooooo,
How are you? How about an update on that paperwork? Any news on the visas? I hope you're that much closer to
unhindered access to Mauna Lua macademia nuts (I think that's what they're called, anyway--all I know is that
they're delicious. I do hope you're not allergic to nuts, though).
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 87 of 96 21 July 2012 at 12:04pm | IP Logged |
@Tecktight
Great to hear from you Kat...I bet you've had your hands full these last couple of months too. I'm so glad to hear that you've made lots of friends as well as progress in Russian during this time, especially over the last fortnight.
After a long hiatus, I've put Russian temporarily on hold to start up a few interesting new language projects ("Raggle-taggle Gypsy, O", "Lift off in Latin" and "Carry on Cleo"). I aim to post an update on all this here soon, once I get the time between preparations for Hawai'i and finding my prize nuts (lol).
Edited by Teango on 22 July 2012 at 2:35am
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Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian
| Message 88 of 96 22 July 2012 at 8:28am | IP Logged |
Your thread titles are always so unique. I'll be sure to take a look at 'em.
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