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My “paper” life!

May 23rd, 2010 by SM (Cairo, Egypt) · 2 Comments

It has been a few months now that I did not post anything on our blog. Not only have been and still am extremely busy at work, training courses or traveling a lot, but also have been caught in an extremely bureaucratic system.  Recently, my life has been a spiral of the good old stamps and the one thousand and one necessary or unecessary signatures.

In my case, I had to spend about 3 to 4 months to get three of my educational certificates (yes you got it right, they are only 3 papers and not 300!) translated, stamped with all the beautiful colourful official stamps. Oh, did I mention all the unecessary signatures that one gets on each paper? In a presumably called “electornic services government”, finishing your papers can take you ages. It is still a ”headache”, not to mention a great waste of time, money and energy.

I will start posting again as soon as am through with my “headache”!

Greetings to all and see you soon.

Sherine.

Tags: Personal

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 sharm // May 26, 2010 at 11:10 am

    you should post every day …

  • 2 SM (Cairo, Egypt) // Sep 5, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    Thanks Sharm for your comment… I know I should post more often… I will try to do that among my “papers” :)

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