The Process
Years ago, I tried to read The Trial by Kafka. It is not a cheerful book. The title is German is Der Process and at the moment I am going through a very Kafkaesque process. Yes, I have a new teaching job, at St. George's International School in Sofia. That is the good news. The bad news is that I need a Police certificate from the copshop in Shenzhen, to say that I was a good boy while I was in China. The good news is that Alicia, the wonderful HR lady at GOS, has replied to my e-mail and she has promised to help me get this certificate from the SZ Fuzz. The bad news was that first I had to get the Power of Attorney document translated from Mandarin into English and Bulgarian. Then the three documents all needed to be stamped by a notarius , after which the documents went to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry. The BFM told me no, go away. The Ministry of Justice will stamp them for you, Mr Hill. I found the Justice Ministry behind the Ivan Vzov National The...