A Backwards Guide to Everyday Life the Diary/Blog of Chris Sarda, Immigration and Separation

Chris's Lingq Diary/Blog Entry # 1 May 16th 2009-05-16 Immigration and Separation So I pulled the trigger and decided to buy a plane ticket back to the states without completely consulting my wife. She was really sad about it, sadder than I thought she would be. We're not separating or anything, in fact it's the opposite. I just need to get back there to handle all the paper work that comes with bringing a foreign wife into the United States. It's too long and boring to list what I have to do here but let's just say I need my the family's help and it's hard to get them to do things and other people to do things through just emails and Google Talk conversations. My wife was hoping that I would at least stay in Poland for the summer, I've not been in Poland during the summer, I've always left for one reason or another and I was also hoping to be able to stay until then, but while it makes a lot of sense emotionally, it doesn't make any sense logically. I need to find a job and make capital and save enough so when I finally do get all the paperwork done I can be ready to bring her there and have enough money after government fees to buy a car and find a descent apartment in a part of town that I'm not afraid to go out in. We've been talking about buying the tickets for a few weeks now but something always gets in the way, whether it's price, time, flight ect. Finally when she wasn't here I just decided that I need to go earlier even if it sucks that we're going to be apart again for months on end. We're supposed to go to a barbeque now and I made her cry, so now she doesn't really feel like going, I'll force her to go though, she's sad because we'll be separated this summer like last summer and we won't be able to do things together so it doesn't really make any sense to miss this barbeque, right? Anyway I guess that's about it, I did my best to make logic based decisions, rather than emotionally based ones. I'm going to regret it though in June, July, August, and September, it's the months and years after those that I hope I know I made the right choice.. Thanks for listening.

Chris's Lingq Diary/Blog Entry # 1 May 16th 2009-05-16

Immigration and Separation

So I pulled the trigger and decided to buy a plane ticket back to the states without completely consulting my wife. She was really sad about it, sadder than I thought she would be. We're not separating or anything, in fact it's the opposite. I just need to get back there to handle all the paper work that comes with bringing a foreign wife into the United States. It's too long and boring to list what I have to do here but let's just say I need my the family's help and it's hard to get them to do things and other people to do things through just emails and Google Talk conversations.

My wife was hoping that I would at least stay in Poland for the summer, I've not been in Poland during the summer, I've always left for one reason or another and I was also hoping to be able to stay until then, but while it makes a lot of sense emotionally, it doesn't make any sense logically. I need to find a job and make capital and save enough so when I finally do get all the paperwork done I can be ready to bring her there and have enough money after government fees to buy a car and find a descent apartment in a part of town that I'm not afraid to go out in.

We've been talking about buying the tickets for a few weeks now but something always gets in the way, whether it's price, time, flight ect. Finally when she wasn't here I just decided that I need to go earlier even if it sucks that we're going to be apart again for months on end.

We're supposed to go to a barbeque now and I made her cry, so now she doesn't really feel like going, I'll force her to go though, she's sad because we'll be separated this summer like last summer and we won't be able to do things together so it doesn't really make any sense to miss this barbeque, right? Anyway I guess that's about it, I did my best to make logic based decisions, rather than emotionally based ones. I'm going to regret it though in June, July, August, and September, it's the months and years after those that I hope I know I made the right choice.. Thanks for listening.