I hope this doesn't get me in trouble with the embassy, but...

Dear Ecuadorian Government,

I hate you. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. I cannot stand you. You make me angry. You make me furious and frustrated.

I got fingerprinted. I got a "certificate of good conduct." I had my check-up. I proved to you I don't have HIV. I proved I have financial standing to be here, the support of my parents and school, that I am enrolled in an official university. I got my Visa.

Then I come here and have to "register" my Visa. WHY? Then I need a "Certificado de Visacion," which I apparently got with my Visa, that I don't remember ever having seen in my life. Now I have to go to a lawyer, pay $20 to get this damn thing, lave my passport there for days, bring the certicado, billions of copies of every page of my passport and more money to some other office god knows where to have my Visa "registered," then bring more money and more stupid pages of information to get a goddamn Ecuadorian ID that I have to have. And hope all of this can get done in the next week and a half so I'm not, you know, kicked out of the country.

For four months.

I am sooo angry. I'm sorry, this is not PC, but what kind of threat am I? I am pumping money into this economy and am a good student at the university I'm attending. I'm not doing any drugs. I even speak a little Spanish. Why is this process such a goddamn big deal and such a pain in the ass?

I'm just pissed all my money is going down the goddamn drain when I already got my stupid Visa. Ugh. Motherfuckers.

Sorry about the cursing.

No I'm not.