The shyt fight begins
from
Trudy Parker
Apr 30
to
Wylie Fan
date
Apr 30, 2007 7:30 PM
subject
The low down
mailed-by
gmail.com
Here is the low down, a couple of combined emails to Col and Marty etc....
I think I got done on the bus, they are pretty skilled at it in Ecuador apparently. The whole sequence of events now that I recall back were a little suss. And there was a moment that the bus stopped at a petrol station, the guys we were traveling with and Georgie were asleep, about 9pm, and I needed to go to the bathroom. So I picked up my bag and went to the toilet. I let the driver know I was going to the bathroom, and the area was well lit, but as I was coming out the guy who I think was involved came out to the bathroom just after I had walked out. Goodness knows what may have happened if I was still in the bathroom. You can take every precaution in the world, but sometimes its just not enough.
The reality of everything just accumulated with me yesterday, and I slept for the better part of the afternoon, evening and this morning. I feel like I have been in a train wreak, emotionally and physically exhausted.
Quito the capital of Ecuador is pretty dangerous, in the evening we need to take cabs everywhere, even just two blocks. There are tonnes of dead beats around. Beggers, and people just out for trouble. Where we are staying is meant to be the ´better´part of town too.
Sadly I will have to have my birthday here, I think, and thats a bummer.
Georgie did some research esp after my passport got stolen, and apparently I just needed to have applied for a working visa BEFORE I turned 31. So I hope that all goes well.
So yeah they stole all my documentation and racked up $14,000 on my credit cards. I dont know how the $14,000 grand will work, hopefully it will get covered by insurance or the banks. I have a police report (albeit in spanish! lol)
Today I went to try and change my tickets and after three hours and 300 american dollars the only available flights are right over my friggin birthday.
I told Georgie to go ahead to London, because unfortunately the canadian embassy here in Ecuador can not issue a passport, only documentation to get me to Peru or Chile to obtain my passport from there. Its not fair that she fart around with me here in Sth America, she can focus on getting settled in London, which benefits me too.
And to boot after Lan Chile fecked around for so long reissuing tickets, I couldnt get to the embassy for my papers to get me into Peru, and tomorrow is a bloody public holiday accross the continent, so I need to stay another day in this shyt hole of a place.....before I can have the Canadian embassy in Ecuador issue me with paper to get over the boarder into Peru.
The Australian Embassy will issue me with with a temporary visa (7 months) which should hopefully work our re: my working holiday visa, as I need to have at least 6 months validity on my passport. When I get to London I can apply for a permanent passport, but I will need mum to complete papers for a new birth certificate. But even BEFORE that I have to also obtain another Australian drivers licence, because I am not sure if I need to provide any additional proof of identification...maybe even a photocopy of my old passport may suffice, who knows.
Trudy Parker
Apr 30
to
Wylie Fan
date
Apr 30, 2007 7:30 PM
subject
The low down
mailed-by
gmail.com
Here is the low down, a couple of combined emails to Col and Marty etc....
I think I got done on the bus, they are pretty skilled at it in Ecuador apparently. The whole sequence of events now that I recall back were a little suss. And there was a moment that the bus stopped at a petrol station, the guys we were traveling with and Georgie were asleep, about 9pm, and I needed to go to the bathroom. So I picked up my bag and went to the toilet. I let the driver know I was going to the bathroom, and the area was well lit, but as I was coming out the guy who I think was involved came out to the bathroom just after I had walked out. Goodness knows what may have happened if I was still in the bathroom. You can take every precaution in the world, but sometimes its just not enough.
The reality of everything just accumulated with me yesterday, and I slept for the better part of the afternoon, evening and this morning. I feel like I have been in a train wreak, emotionally and physically exhausted.
Quito the capital of Ecuador is pretty dangerous, in the evening we need to take cabs everywhere, even just two blocks. There are tonnes of dead beats around. Beggers, and people just out for trouble. Where we are staying is meant to be the ´better´part of town too.
Sadly I will have to have my birthday here, I think, and thats a bummer.
Georgie did some research esp after my passport got stolen, and apparently I just needed to have applied for a working visa BEFORE I turned 31. So I hope that all goes well.
So yeah they stole all my documentation and racked up $14,000 on my credit cards. I dont know how the $14,000 grand will work, hopefully it will get covered by insurance or the banks. I have a police report (albeit in spanish! lol)
Today I went to try and change my tickets and after three hours and 300 american dollars the only available flights are right over my friggin birthday.
I told Georgie to go ahead to London, because unfortunately the canadian embassy here in Ecuador can not issue a passport, only documentation to get me to Peru or Chile to obtain my passport from there. Its not fair that she fart around with me here in Sth America, she can focus on getting settled in London, which benefits me too.
And to boot after Lan Chile fecked around for so long reissuing tickets, I couldnt get to the embassy for my papers to get me into Peru, and tomorrow is a bloody public holiday accross the continent, so I need to stay another day in this shyt hole of a place.....before I can have the Canadian embassy in Ecuador issue me with paper to get over the boarder into Peru.
The Australian Embassy will issue me with with a temporary visa (7 months) which should hopefully work our re: my working holiday visa, as I need to have at least 6 months validity on my passport. When I get to London I can apply for a permanent passport, but I will need mum to complete papers for a new birth certificate. But even BEFORE that I have to also obtain another Australian drivers licence, because I am not sure if I need to provide any additional proof of identification...maybe even a photocopy of my old passport may suffice, who knows.
posted by trudy.p at 11:27 am
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