Football and Visa

This picture is from the Boca vs Independiente that I wen to see last year, I had my camera with me then, but without the memory card which I left in the last Internet cafe I was in, I just happened to meet a girl there who I knew before in a hostel in Ushuaya (Maiko Padilla), I asked her to take a photo for me, then I memorized her email, since we had nothing to write it down with, I sent her an email, and three month later I got the picture, me at the big match at the Boca stadium, thanks Maiko.

My plan with to leave Medellin on Monday night, but I had this strong feeling I did not want to go yet, so I decided to stay for one more night, what a lucky decision that was, somehow the subject of visas came up during a conversation, I had though that I had an 8 week visa, because that was what I requested in the immigration form when I entered Colombia, but apparently they only gave me 30 days, like everybody else, without telling me that, and I never bothered to check the stamp on the passport, anyway that meant that I spend the day illegally in Colombia. The next morning I head to the DAS office, where they told me it was alright, as long as I file my extension the same day, where I got a form to fill and list of requirements : Passport photos and Photo copies of various documents and passport pages, I filled the form got the Photos and the çPhoto copies, and went back in the afternoon, but I was refused, because I was missing one thing, a ticket out of the country, which I did not have, they told me it could be a plane or a bus ticket, so I went to the bus terminal and purchased the cheapest bus ticket to the border (Ecuador), this time I had everything, but before I got the visa, I had to get finger printed, three times for each of my ten fingers, I was never finger printed before, but I got my 30 day extension. There was a 60,000 fee for the extension (25 Euros), and I paid around 35,000 for taxi fees, going back and forth between DAS, the terminal, the bank and the hostel, the bus ticket cost me 74,000 pesos, but luckily I got it exchanged for a ticket to Cartagena the same night, just had to pay the differences in the fairs, without any extra charge or any fuss (the company was Bolivariano), the bus ride was a bit rough at some parts and I did not sleep that well, but I made to Cartagena.