What do you know Spain?
Daniel, Spanish type who lives and works in Cape Town four years ago, I explained that there are two types of Spanish living in South Africa: "Those who are over 60 years and came to early 70 from Brazil, effect a kind of call that there was word of mouth. Were immigrants who crossed the pond because there was no work and gigs turners, Mechanical… and are now junilados. And we have among 25 and 36 years, married or living in a South African / ao have good jobs ". A third category, who are English learners and lost themselves, who come here looking for new emotions rather than settle in the comfortable and british London.
Spain's little known here: F. C. Barcelona, selection and Real Madrid (the first is very fashionable). ¿Después? Some small concepts. For example, He explained in a collaboration that I started with football magazine Mediapunta, in the middle of the street's most famous cocktail Cape Town, Long Street, There is a tapas bar, Fork, which accounts for a large sheet that the tradition of this dish (tapas) comes from the times of King Alfonso X, Wise. Then, enter, ask four covers which are tremendous, haute cuisine, him and look to the owner, is excited at the idea of having an understanding Spanish cuisine, need to face some 638 how are you over just for starters. "People here do not get the caps are small", I said looking for my complicity and without realizing that while I started to eat the table. I have also seen in a restaurant that offers paella, sangria and gazpacho (cooked anything about mountains and Basque Hake).
Then, You can encounter all kinds of Spanish wines: Vega Sicilia from 200 euros at the exchange (I just discovered it and I just forget), Don Simon, a 2,8 EUR (I had forgotten before coming). With movies it's the same: in my club you can rent video from "All About My Mother" to "The Ages of Lulu" that, I explain in playmaker, is the most erotic of all local followed by Driving Miss Daisy ". Very chaste.
You can always do like some guys who travel on the same plane to India and take six tons of sausage and cured ham crafted camouflaged
Therefore, this is not a good place for those nostalgic for their homeland. You can always do like some guys who travel on the same plane to India and take six tons of sausage and cured ham crafted camouflaged (were to be fifteen days).
About Spanish, I have met here a few. Yesterday I had the first Spanish party. I was with Daniel, Alvaro and Ana and ended up in a place called Buenavista, where the only sounds sauce unbridled ass and hips straight out of dance school. Colony is likely to meet again for one of the World Cup games. They are trying to mount some sort of association with blows of barbecue and paella. France has a specific local, paid by the Government, where there are cultural events which have bought tickets to offer its citizens. We, a lot of chops to put on coal and some regional songs.
Finally, I forgot, flamenco. Last Saturday, a charming taxi driver told me: "I love flamenco. You sing from the heart ". Facebook!!! I told him it was true, I was excited, supporting every word of his statement with gestures such as "you really know". Then, when I got off the car, with new gestures of complicity between them that can only be understood by the proximity to produce art, thought: flamenco as I have is a "Sailboat Called Freedom" by José Luis Perales.
PD. For workers of the emotions
About, for those who intend to come here to earn a wage and forget and chickpea stew. Daniel explained to me the conditions for obtaining a residence permit: you have to have a firm offer of contract; demonstrate that your job can not cover any South African; the company have put an ad offering employment and, to be, come fresh from the beaches of Tarifa complexion has passed 60 days under the summer sun. "I have four years to get it, with all papers, and I do not give ". Why? "The other day I was given the key: 're not black ".
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Ann
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Like, I like this post… It's the most nostalgic that I have read in more than two months. More than ever javi… very well, so good.
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Xavier
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Nothing, not return even if I get the Iberian shoulders of two for one (yes, try just in case)
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A guy named Daniel
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Dear Javier,
Only clarification and clarification to what you comment
Desconozcoo if the French club as such, I doubt it, so if there is the French Alliance,una especie de Instituto Cervantes «a la francesa» donde se pueden recibir clases de francés o ver peliculas, documentary or simply a coffee in a more bohemian than. That if there, are Italian and Portuguese clubs, found in Milnerton, are nonprofit asociaciaciones, funded by partners and rented a room for meetings offering various activities, from language classes to beauty contests. These associations are the spontaneous product of migrants from both countries, about 20.000 Italian and a 200.000 portugueses en Western Province, to try to preserve traditions and language and to create a common meeting place for community, where newcomers can be counseled appropriately. It is a club of its kind which aims to train. Unfortunately due to the small number of Spanish here can only act to beat paella ¨ ¨ to be just 200.
Any resemblance to a cover with the lids ¨ ¨ Fork is mere coincidence. Do not expect what we mean by caps. Moreover, the price is higher than the average.
The requirements for obtaining a work permit, ¨ type ¨ permit special skills I possess as, are as follows
– Have an employment contract already signed by a local
– The contracting company must demonstrate that it sought in the local labor market profile covers the claimant, unsuccessfully of course.
– Certificate of criminal
– Access to a job that no South African can do and prove conveniently, through formal qualifications, letters of recommendation of the contracting company and more South Africans recognized professionals in the plaintiff's work environment.
– Deposit in advance the ticket back, if it is repatriated.
The granting of this permit greatly facilitates obtaining permanent residence ¨ ¨.
There is another type of permit that can take the contracting company, ¨ ¨ called corporate permit for which only one can work in the company, if one is fired or leaves the job, must leave the country. The procedures are streamlined enough.
In my case I got the work permit for four years, my arrival in the country, so obviously work in a legal situation. I have permanent residence processed desdse ago 20 months, without expectation of a near end, waiting for the slow bureaucratic process ends. It is common knowledge ¨ ¨ ¨ to be ¨ nonwhite greatly helps speed up considerably when any step in the administration, from a public sector to get any subsidy, help or license of any kind. In no time my lawyers have admitted that, publicly or privately, it is simply a common sentiment among white South African.
Finally say, he did not expect a casual conversation, the warmth of good company and a good glass of wine transcend beyond midnight and the story of Vega Sicilia. If I'd known I was going to interview me had put jacket, tie and I had prepared a ¨ I can greet? Greetings to my grandmother, my parents, my uncle Henry, Wow my dog ¨ ¨ and more rolling type of Bar Las Cruces Carabanchel, already know who…and…¨ as do Patricia Program.
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Xavier
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Hola Daniel,
first tell you, with all the appreciation, that neither you nor I interviewed my post is dedicated not based on your experiences. You appear mentioned in a blog, as such my life story here, without. I do the same with other Spanish, South Africans, Somali, zimbaueses, Nepalese and French with which I stumble on the way. Understand that I do not tell everyone I talk to that I will mention in a blog.
My information on l’ alliance francaise me a god amiga francesa, who live here and my roommate who is regularly. Try just being a joke based on stereotypes, although it is quite some. In no time the club name in the text.
On the residence permit, trying to explain references to Spanish seeking to make life here, but I appreciate your contribution can help someone. (I meant no lawyer and did say something that you told me you said, I understood you said your lawyers, and can help others to be clear about your process if you want the same).
I feel, real, if you sense that I have violated your privacy, but I did not expect that a blog could be fun trying to bother. Imagine that each contained herein peresona leaving me the same answer, would have to count my soliloquies. In any case, I agree that was a nice night to heat a few glasses of wine.
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