**Visa update**
Got the postcard telling me to go in to the immigration office on Monday to find out my "results," went in on Tuesday, and it turns out...I got it!! And a three-year, no less! So, I'm good until 2012. The whole process was surprisingly fast, though: Gave them my application on Monday, Oct. 5th--Received phone call from them telling me I had to earn more money from Japanese companies (foreign companies don't count b/c you "don't need to live in Japan" to work for them "even if you pay the Japanese government taxes from that income") on Friday, Oct. 9th--Sent in more "invoices" for "private English students" in Japan on Tuesday, Oct. 13--Received post card stating that my results were ready on Monday, Oct. 19 (though the postal date stamp was Friday the 16th). So, the decision about my visa only took two weeks, even though they told me I had to mail them more information, and they say it usually takes three to four weeks...So, did they actually look at the other information I sent them? Were they going to give me the visa all along, but the guy who called just wanted to hassle me and, as my friend said, "create red tape because there wasn't any already"? I guess we'll never know...but who cares, because I got my visa!!!
Got the postcard telling me to go in to the immigration office on Monday to find out my "results," went in on Tuesday, and it turns out...I got it!! And a three-year, no less! So, I'm good until 2012. The whole process was surprisingly fast, though: Gave them my application on Monday, Oct. 5th--Received phone call from them telling me I had to earn more money from Japanese companies (foreign companies don't count b/c you "don't need to live in Japan" to work for them "even if you pay the Japanese government taxes from that income") on Friday, Oct. 9th--Sent in more "invoices" for "private English students" in Japan on Tuesday, Oct. 13--Received post card stating that my results were ready on Monday, Oct. 19 (though the postal date stamp was Friday the 16th). So, the decision about my visa only took two weeks, even though they told me I had to mail them more information, and they say it usually takes three to four weeks...So, did they actually look at the other information I sent them? Were they going to give me the visa all along, but the guy who called just wanted to hassle me and, as my friend said, "create red tape because there wasn't any already"? I guess we'll never know...but who cares, because I got my visa!!!
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In other news, I went to my favorite food-themed amusement park, Namja Town, the other day. They were having an event called "Dessert Panic Carnival," so various dessert vendors were offering strange looking/tasting desserts. I really wanted to try the "Dracula Cream puff," which was black on the outside and filled with bright red, spicy cherry-flavored filling. However, they were out...So I went for my second choice: a crepe filled with a bunch of different flavored gelatin hearts, including ones that are super spicy or sour, so it is like gelatin roulette because you never know what you are going to get.
It cost 680yen, which is more expensive than a normal crepe, but this is what I was expecting:
A crepe filled to the top with colorful gelatin!When I ordered it, the girl seemed reluctant to make it, saying "there are sweet, spicy, and sour flavors, so it isn't really that tasty..." "That's fine," I replied, since I had read the description on the sign for "dessert panic" and that is why I wanted it. Do they actually expect people to not order it? She then proceeded to make a crepe, and COMPLETELY FILL IT with whipped cream...Then she folded it up, went in back, and emerged with this:
A whipped cream crepe topped with a mere four gelatin hearts...You can imagine my disappointment.
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Congrats on VISA!!!!!
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