things did not go smooth today. i woke up early cause i had to open a bank account, tackle the scholarship situation, and get some driving lessons plan started.
the bank (NBK):
i went to the qurtuba branch since thats where i live. i went in, and the lady at the counted was really nice to call me up without issuing a ticket (mind you there weren't that many people there anyways). i told her i wanted to open up al shabab account so i can deposit the i3ana money (government payment to university students) and to deposit my savings. i never had a kuwaiti account, i had a swiss one for the past 3 years (after all they are the best at banking). the lady told me to issue a ticket which was 2 numbers away, so i was like ok , cool, 10 minute wait tops. the time on the ticket was 9:37, and i got my turn at 10:15. i was already pissed, but took it easy, did not complain a bit (even though the two people behind their desks were probably chatting to someone since they had no customers). i sat down and told her what i wanted, after another 10 minutes of her barely finding her way around (THE COMPUTER FROM MARS) she told me that i had once opened an al azraq account, although i never picked it up from the bank or used it. it was my moms idea to open that account in the farwaniya branch because she had a friend there. now i have to go to farwaniya, close the account (my mom needs to be with me) and get back to open an al shabab account. thats around one hour completely wasted.
ministry of higher education:
i spent around 20 minutes getting my transcripts and all that together, along with my GWU acceptance package, then i headed to shuwaikh port where the ministry of higher education is. i went into the first building to find an all women faculty (the type that believe every mans intentions are bad to every women, you know what i mean). so just being there, i felt disgusted, but non-the-less, the lady sent me to building number 4 telling me i need to equivilate my IB first. i went to that building and waited around 15 minutes until i got my turn. i went up to the lady and told her i had been studying in switzerland for the past 3 years and she told me to give her A SECOND to ask someone on the phone about my situation (as if i am asking for rocket science). after a 10 minute conversation that included 1 minute of questions that had to do with my case and the other 9 about the other party on the phone's dilemma with whatever. she started by saying this in arabic " to begin with, you have to have your actual diploma to equivilate it, (which comes out in on around july 5-6th), but the thing is that i doubt they offer equivalency to people that studied abroad ". i gave her the stare of death, and explained to her what the IB diploma was. she then told me that in any case, nothing can be done now. now its 12 oclock, and i had gotten nothing done.
driving lessons (morror):
my test is on june 2nd, and i wanted to make sure i know how to do all the parallel parking and whatnot that i will be tested on, so my father told me you might as well schedule 8 lessons or so to practice. i went to the farwaniya driving school which is on the way to the airport, and they had just closed. the security guy told me to come back tomorrow at 7.
conclusions:
i wasted around 3:30-4:00 hours chasing non existing tasks. for a guy thats an organized freak (to a certain degree :p) thats a lot of time gone to waste. i also made my friends who were waiting for me at corniche feel like i didn't care about them (they didn't complain but i promised i would spend the day with them at the gym, pool, and for lunch)
im hoping that tomorrow will be a better day!
