Immigration & Tabouleh

So, I've been busy filling out forms for my immigration interview that I had yesterday. We've decided that this will help in the future should we decide to settle here, but also this will help greatly for continued access to Australia - which I will definitely need now and for the future.

This is the size of APPLICATION! yikes - lots of information. Please note the extreme work that went into organizing and filing that puppy. Also here are all of our "photographic evidences" tabbed and in chronological order.
I went into all this, thinking this was going to be hard work and not easy - not to get worked up about it, but just to do it. It's the same "talking to" I give myself before entering the Metrotown mall in Vancouver around Christmas time - just breathe...It will be all right!

The interview went all right. We are just waiting on a few things to come in - an Australian and Canadian police check, and a health records check. I've done all the paperwork for them - and got my health check done too - now we just wait the results in the mail.

The meeting went fine - I wasn't sure how to feel afterwards. I was hoping to be relieved but to be honest, I guess that won't happen til the process is finished. I guess it is common to make you feel a bit rattled - so it doesn't SEEM easy to do it, but I don't know. I have 28 days to offer in the rest of my paperwork.

Leigh has been a super gem. He came with me to Melbourne yesterday, and afterwards took me to Ikea to buy a cheese grater and a plant. It helped. It's nice to be married to such a great person.

Recently, I've continued on this detox, and it hasn't been going too badly. Here's some home-made kofta and tabouleh I made last week for tea (supper)

so yummy.

Comments

Anonymous said…
you look so pretty ange, i miss your hair!
9:55 pm
jamie said…
wow good luck with all that stuff..i definitely know what it is like!
3:05 am
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