Visa – Everywhere You Want to Be … As long as it’s Sierra Leone
Well, it's official. The sovereign government of Sierra Leone will allow me to come in and stay awhile. The following tidbit of joy greeted me as I opened the mail today.
I'm not sure how I feel about the government of a country making the marital status of the bearer the most obvious thing about a visa for their country. Look at it there – highlighted in purple and in a font twice as large as anything else on the form. I'm generally not sensitive about my marital status (especially after my induction into the Bachelors to the Rapture not-so-secret-nor-serious society), but come on. I could foresee this being salt in a wound to many singles. Sensitivity is ever so important … just like oral hygiene and paying your taxes.
Don't be getting any funny ideas about pasting a copy of this into your passport and sneaking into Sierra Leone. I would appreciate your company, I'm sure. But you should really get your own. Besides, I’ve removed the sensitive numerical information. I'm generally not naive, but I am unfamiliar with the sensitivity of posting such a thing. If there is a reason that this should not be displayed, please let me know.
Prentice, you are hilarious! Hey, I came on your site a while ago and was shocked to see a photo of myself on
your scrolling pictures. Maybe you can update it cause it’s kind of…well…anyway. So I’m excited to see a
link to Through Painted Deserts since I’m in the middle of reading it. Don and Paul just arrived at the Grand
Canyon. I hope you update your blog often while you’re gone cause I’ll be living my overseas life vicariously
through you like I do with everyone else. Actually, I’m loving being in Tacoma, and I wouldn’t want to be
anywhere else just right now. BUT, I will be so excited to stay up on your experiences and transformations
and triumphs and heartaches and okay so all your news that you’ll have time to share. I know you’ll have such an
amazing time. I have yet to talk to Zeeb but I got all his emails from Rio and it was so great.
Hope you got my email I sent out a few weeks ago. Sorry it was a mass one. I’m trying, really.
Later, M.