What a process it is to get your alien card! Not that I should have expected different considering the Visa process.
Everyone needs so many pictures of me. The hospital, the school, the alien card people...and I ran out of pictures, so I had to go to a photo place to get more. Now in America when I went to get a passport photo, they sat me down, took out a crappy camera, told me not to smile, took one picture and bam I was done, no matter how bad I looked in the picture**.
**On that note, my pictures did come out pretty bad, and the Korean teachers asked me if I was drunk or really tired or sick when I took my photo because I look so bad and I just said "probably." They're so blunt here, I don't know how to react. I DO know that I'm going to have to figure it out sooner or later because it's only been two weeks and I've already been asked if I was sick because I "look[ed] tired." Thanks...
Anyway, here I had to go to a professional photography studio. They put all these lights around me and they spent ten minutes trying to get me to straighten my shoulders. Which, consequently, leads me to believe that I have naturally crooked shoulders or something because when they came over to me and "straightened" my shoulders, I felt all lope-sided. Maybe I've been walking around crooked my whole life! When my shoulders were finally "straight" or whatever, they took a zillion pictures of me, but they did let me smile, which I was grateful for despite the fact I wasn't particularly in the mood because I was so focused on attempting to stay crooked, or straight depending on how you see it.
On top of it all, I have to wait a few days to get the pictures back because they are going to edit them and airbrush them and all, which I'm pretty sure defeats the purpose of a passport photo. Aren't I supposed to look like myself?
Wow! I have never known an alien before! And yes, seems you are finding out that being in America is waaaay different than being almost anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteKatie you absolutely make me laugh and by the way maybe you inherited the "wow you look tired" from the summer you spent at my house. I am always told "Wow you look tired" no matter how good I think I look, leaving the house it only takes a couple of minutes before someone tells me wow you look tired........
ReplyDeleteAww you poor thing, perhaps I did, haha
ReplyDeleteI wish somebody glammed up my passport photo. I'm pretty sure you'd think your tired photo was the epitome of attractive if you saw mine...
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