7/28/14: Day 148: We Be Legal

Today was a success! We left the house at 6:40 to go to Santa Ana. On our way we stopped in Ahuachapán to meet my Spanish teacher and get our blood type from the clinic. My teacher wasn’t there so we went on to the immigration office. They were open today and I was able to get my residency! There was one little glitch where they had put an ‘S’ on the end of my passport number. The immigration officer said it must be a mistake and thankfully he said not to worry about it. ‘S’ is not even a number… The officer at the immigration has been the same every time and he is very friendly / helpful. I hope he is still there when mom and dad get here. We then went to the DMV to get our drivers licenses. We had to go through 5 stages to complete the task. The first stage was to hand in the papers which she required us to go make more copies; luckily there was a copier in the building. The second stage was to pay for it. The third stage required a visual test! It felt more like a Spanish test but thankfully I know the alphabet and colors! The second part of the third stage was getting our pictures taken. The fourth stage was the hardest! It was an interview where we had to tell our lives story and list our relatives. The fifth stage was just to wait for card and sign that we have received it. We were done with all of this by 10:00 AM! We were both hungry so we went to the food court in the mall. Della was craving a big mac and they had a special where if you order the big mac combo you can get an extra mac for only 99 cents more. Ordering was a total disaster. They charged us for two meals and an extra mac on one of them. The manager had to come and fix everything and I still didn’t get it with only mayonnaise and ketchup. After lunch we went to the grocery store and then back to home. At 5:00 I went to the small group bible study in Shucutitan. Carlos taught over the first few chapters in Jeremiah. I felt like I understood most of it. It is nice to have this opportunity to focus on listening to learn Spanish better instead of teaching.

Tomorrow I will be studying Spanish all day!