For a moment, I thought my dad's death certificate was ready, but alas...

So the paperwork made it to Beijing and has come back. Apparently someone was trying to get a hold of me because these documents (document?) will be couriered to me. I thought the certificate was ready!! Unfortunately, it's just more stuff I have to to the Chinese embassy in Vancouver to get certified. Then I have to courier it back.

And then I think I wait another month for it to come back?! Whatever I am getting endorsed/certified is going back to Beijing. I hope it doesn't take a month. My dad's bills are piling up.

His estate keeps getting bills, but there is no estate yet. Until I get that death certificate, there will be no estate. Hopefully I will get it by May.

The Chinese embassy here is open from 9 am to 1 pm, Mondays through Fridays. I hope I can get that all sorted out next week. I can't be taking care of this stuff when I'm starting a new job!!

My mom was a little frustrated with the agent who is handling this stuff. The communication barrier has been a small obstacle. Thank goodness I can understand some Chinese. My dad's gf wanted me to call the agent to discuss the latest matters, but I didn't want to talk to him. Everyone just assumes I am completely fluent!! I felt these matters were too important to pretend I knew exactly what he was talking about, so I told my mom to phone him. We had to give him the address for couriering the stuff. He asked my mom it was possible to give him a Chinese address!! Obviously his English is worse than my Chinese.

He didn't want to write it down when they were on the phone, so my mom said she would fax him the address...but he had no fax machine? He asked her to call him back in 15 minutes so he could get her a fax number. I am going to be so relieved when this saga is OVER!