I’ve got my French PR finally !
Thursday, October 25th, 2007After being 3 years and 5 months in France, I finally got my French permanent residency last week ! I was very happy to receive this PR because I was so desperate and frustrated more than a year, waiting for it to come out ! I was back and forth to the prefecture here to ask for my PR application status, however, my application in Paris last year has been canceled because of my moving in Marseille. I found it ridiculous because moving in to another state here in France can be such a big administration problem. I had to re-apply last May and it took so long for them to work on my application. I was quite unfortunate in this case because moving to Marseille means I’ll get the work done slower and longer than expected. I suppose that is in their culture, while in Paris, the people tend to work quicker and more effective.
Anyway, besides this good news last week, we have a new comer in our family, Laurent’s niece was born last Friday, 19 October. The parents name their baby girl, Maureen. We saw a couple of her pictures already, she looked so cute with her new baby clothes and the most important thing is that she was doing well. We’re going to visit Paris next month, as one of the strongest reasons is to have a first look at our new-born niece.
Monday, 16 October, my mommy was finally arrived here. I was so happy to welcome her here… I took her around already, but of course, without a car, it’s a bit difficult to take her to many places. So at the moment, we hang out around Marseille, the city center, the shopping center, and the biggest Asian supermarket here (Paris Store) as she really liked to hang out there longer than our first visit ! hehehe… My mommy isn’t that difficult to please, just provide her with lots of things to cook, take her to Paris Store, then she’ll be very much happy ! She cooks us everyday of course, Laurent and I have always things to eat, until last night, Laurent was a bit fed up eating rice every night hehehe… Luckily, Mommy cooked fried kwetiauw in the afternoon, so just to change the menu, we ate the kwetiauw and Laurent had a bit of left-over beef soup. Everything that my mommy cook is very nice ! I wish I have the talent like hers… Oh well, it’s time for me to learn cooking more while she’s here… learn to cook Indonesian food, especially Padang food that we like so much !
Thanks mommy… I hope you enjoy your stay in France…
