At least some news...

Got news from the lawyers!!!
Not good, not bad, just news... Our visa documents where submitted to the US Embassy in Milan, so now we just depend from them to have progress on our visa process. Which is quite good, because my colleagues where telling me that US Embassy is incredibly efficient and fast! So I'm hoping to have good (or bad) news soon!

Today's new words (from drivers handbook):
- Tailgate: follow another car to closely;
- Rubbernecking: slowing down to look at accidents or virtually anything else out of the ordinary.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying spring in Italy... it is just so beautiful!

Getting Excited

Fernando Flores is in Milan since last Wednesday. He is one of the Spanish guys currently working in Los Gatos office, the one in California where we are supposed to be going by the next month :).


Fer and Cristina having an Italian pizza ;)

He keeps telling us good things about Los Gatos, about the office, the people, the shopping... Ah!!! I wasn't so nervous about this delay in our trip, but now I'm getting excited and curious to get there. Specially after seeing Roberto's posts, hehe.

No news about our Visa yet... lawyers in Sanfran have all our documents already, they say that as soon as they submit them to the embassy, they will let us know... so, as it is being for the last 3 weeks... I'm STILL WAITING!!!!
In the meantime I could think of starting to prepare my winter luggage (lazyyyyyyy), the summer one came ready from Brazil... I didn't even touch it.

Seals

Still in Italy, still cold, raining now for 4 days in a row...

Still waiting for our Visa. Today I've been studying the embassy site to know a little bit more about our visa:

-Why can we have this Visa: "Section 101(a)(15)(E) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides nonimmigrant visa status for a national of any of the countries with which the United States maintains an appropriate treaty of commerce and navigation, who is coming to the United States to carry on substantial trade, including trade in services or technology, principally between the United States and the treaty country, or to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which the national has invested, or is actively in the process of investing substantial amount of capital." It makes me think I'm important!

- "This visa must be renewed every other year, but there is no limit to how many times one can renew". Which is good, 'cause many Visas let you stay in the US for 3 or 5 years, but after this period you need to stay 365 days away from the Country.

-"Spouses and unmarried children under 21 years of age, regardless of nationality, may receive derivative visas in order to accompany the principal alien". First thing... ALIEN! hahahah I love this word :). Second If i wanted, you could be "THE WIFE" and wouldn't need to do a process for my own... but I'm happy I have mine. It makes me feel useful :P. in any case, I'm not married in Italy yet... this cross country documentation takes tiiiiiiime.

Good things about still being here:
- We've been snowboarding often these days...
- I went to see the Musical Mamma mia! yesterday, and I really enjoyed it. Mostly at the end of the musical, when everyone was clapping, and Rafa looked at me and said: Imagine ET's looking at us right now... we look like a bunch of seals clapping our hands:


Worst thing about being here (besides the rain and the cold):
- I SOLD MY ACDC TICKETS FOR 69 EUROS(same price as I've payed), BECAUSE I WOULDN?T BE HERE AT MARCH 19, BUT NOW THEY COST 200 EUROS!!! AHhhh! :@



Today's new word:
Yield: dare la precedenza - dar a precedencia.

There is no need to remember me that there is a Pearl Jam album with this name... I just didn't get it until yesterday!!!

Drivers License

I will be happy when I get it... but for now I'm only worried. To drive in California I will need to do ANOTHER drivers License, the third in 7 years: First the Brazilian, then the Italian and now Californian!! Ahhhhh!!!!

In the meantime, to save time, I've started studying...

Ciao!!
:D