A bad week and a good week-end
Posted by: FIdji SIMO in American way of life, Entertainment, Expatriation, Travel, eBay
Bad, bad week: a bad flu after my Yosemite trip, some tight deadlines at work, not many hours of sleep, and the confirmation that I won’t get my visa this year. Yes, dear friends, I’ll be back to Paris in February 2009! I hope that, like Nico says, “brunches with friends and lots and lots of boat trips” will compensate the fact that I really didn’t want to see the Eiffel Tower again so soon. Speaking of Paris, I’ll be there next week for my graduation: it is weird because I feel so out of touch with all this school thing, but on the other hand I feel really nostalgic that this part of my life is over. I’ll share the pictures with the nice square hat soon!
A part from that, the week wasn’t all bad: I had dinner with Seb and Valentine (from the French office) on Thursday and it was really cool, like a real French dinner in a French restaurant with a lot of talking before, between and after the meals… Seb saw that I was on the verge of getting completely crazy with the flu + the workload, so he saved me from a major nervous breakdown by inviting me that evening 
Fortunately this week-end was pretty cool: Audrey turned 25 and invited some friends to a nice restaurant in SF (see picture), so I met some cool people (French, of course, can’t help it!) and then we went to a club (French, of course!) where I met an HEC from my promotion that I was supposed to meet in the weeks to come, but I guess the French community is a small world!
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You cannot come back to France, that’s not possible. I need a place to stay in the US. It sucks.
But you can try again next year? I will pray for you if you want. And they can’t give you a L1 visa? And if you get married?Or a baby? Please tell me you will stay there.
I don’t want you to come back.
Nevermind, I think I met more american people in Paris than you in the US.
Hey birthday boy! I hope your panick is less selfish that it seems
So, the plan is that we go back to France (Remy will try keeping on working for his employer from France) and then I apply for the H1B again next year: if I get it we come back to the US in Oct.2009, if I don’t get it, then after one year in France I get a L1 visa (it’s one year minimum) and therefore we come back around March 2010.
Getting married now would allow me to stay in the US without working, which doesn’t seem possible.
Happy now ?
Not really. If I want to come between feb09 and oct09 I can’t.
I see that you’re really happy to know that from feb09 to oct09 we will be living in the same city and you can see us every week end
Hi Fidji! Well apart from the bad news for you, I hope that we run into each other in 2009 then, because I really shouldn’t wait another year to meet all of the (French) Tech IT Easy crew!
Déconne pas Fidji, faut que tu repartes rapidement, histoire que je fasse mon petit tour des US vu que j’aurais certainement encore un ami qui va s’exiler là-bas…:-)
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Ceci dit, j’espère sincèrement que tu obtiendras ton visa L1 (mon ami Wikipédia me dit que c’est un bon tremplin pour avoir la GreenCard
Bon retour à Paris, si le temps est le même la semaine prochaine, tu vas sortir le gros manteau et pour ta remise des diplômes c’est moyen moyen
Wish you best of luck and hope you enjoy your US trip @ ebay.
Your PayPal colleague.
Malgres le fait que je suis viramnet decu de devoir changer mes plans vacances pour l’annee prochaine, je vois au moins 3 points positifs pour vous:
- Vous allez pouvoir vivre a paris et pas dans ce coin perdu de jouy en josas ou on peut presque trouver des vaches
- Tu vas pouvoir manger du fois gras tout les jours car nous ca nous coute pas un bras ici
- vous pourrez assister a la saint louis 2009
Je previens a l’avance, je suis pas la pour votre demenagement, ni pour votre deuxieme depart aux US.
@vince: hey, you’re good at finding positive aspects
@bea: I’ll reapply for the H1B next year, and if it doesn’t work I’ll apply for the L1; I’m almost sure to get the L1 but it is just that I would need to work at least a year in France… and I don’t like big coats, I prefer light dresses!
@julien: can’t believe you read my blog
! Thanks for your nice comment, I’ll make the most of this year for sure.
@rom: you got me with the foie gras, but you ruined everything when you metionned the Saint Louis. And no way we’ll live in Jouy again! At least we have plenty of stuff to take back from your cave