I'm been here nearly 17 years and I'm still not a citizen of this great nation. Last year, I decided that I'd had enough of sitting back and letting politicians make decisions without being able to voice my opinions and so, after much discussion with my parents and discovering that I can hold dual citizenship, we, as a family filed the papers. Citizenship is much like the green card. We currently hold the status of landed immigrants which allows us all the benefits of citizenship except for the most important, voting.

The process of application is rather tedious and, from my understanding, it has changed radically over the years. Our process started last March with a request for documents and a payment for the processing fees. Since then, the only thing we've received was a summons for fingerprinting. But Tuesday we received the summons to write the citizenship test. It's a one hour, multiple choice test that can be writen in either English or French and it tests basic knowledge of Canada and it's history. They even send out a booklet to help you study. So now, I have to write the test next Friday and then we wait for the final step, the taking of the citizenship oath.

Once everything is said and done, we'll be citizens of both Canada and Portugal! WOOHOO!

It's been rather quiet at work the last few days. I'm just waiting for the bomb to drop and all hell to break lose.

Talking to Baby Girl yesterday. She was telling me about her job search and how there are TONS of jobs out there. She mentioned that there were a few that I might be interested in. I'm not sure if I should look or not. I haven't yet because all things considered, I'm quite "content" here and I know this isn't were I'm going to be in 5 years. To be honest, I don't want another learning curve until I'm ready to do what I really want and that's not going to happen until I'm done with school so...for the time being, I think I'll stay put. One the other hand, I start to think that maybe there's something out there that would better suit my skills and that I might enjoy more! I just don't know what to do. Any suggestions?