The date was Monday, June 14th, 1999
at 8:30am and the sun was shining as I walked into the Embassy to have
my medical examination. Before I could go inside I had to show my passport
and the letter with my appointment. The guy told me to head up to window
5. It was more of a cubicle, really, and I told the lady at it that I was
here for my medical. She told me to sit down and wait there.
Luckily, it wasn't a long wait at all and only
took about 10 minutes for my turn to come up. The lady asked for my birth
certificate and a passport picture and she said that the rest she didn't
need to see, because everything else was already in the package that Pamela
had sent in to Nebraska. So I had a very easy time compared to the other
people who went before me. The lady gave me a piece of paper with directions
on it to go to the hospital and then to the doctor. This was very handy,
I might add, and I went outside and walked my way there, knowing I had
a parking spot paid till 11:40 so there was plenty of time.
Once in the hospital, I sat down and
waited for a X-ray picture, and that went pretty quick too..just the price
of it that got to me because I had to pay 85,- guilders (somewhere in the
area of 43 american dollars) for a single picture and you couldn't even
see it was me!!*Pout* :o) So, with the X-ray in my hands, I walked up to
the Doctor and it was on the 4th floor *Ieekk!!* The doctor turned out
to be very friendly and he had a good sense of humor too. But there is
just one thing that I hadn't anticipated...more paper work *Sigh* The doctor
gave me two pieces of paper to fill out, with questions like "Did you ever
have this?" or "How many times have you had this?" He checked me
from top to toe and took blood and gave me a cocktail shot (an immunization
shot for more than one thing). The check didn't take long at all, just
the 2 pieces of paper you need to fill in was a bit too much *Sigh* When
I was finished, I paid 269.- guilders to the doctor, so that the
total was like 381.-guilders. 389,- guilders with the parking fee I had
to pay. So please make sure that if you go to the Embassy in Amsterdam
to take some change with you, at least 18 guilders. At least 500 guilders
to be able to pay for it all...
Next is the Interview. *YaY*
