Italian Consulate - Part III

Ok, I'm trying to catch this blog up to where I am now because I leave Canada in 13 hours!

I had planned on going to the consulate a few days after my return from Ottawa. But before I did I got a call at 7pm one night from Ms. Spedicato. She asked me to come to the consulate the next day. Like I said before, when Ms. Spedicato says jump, you ask how high. I thought it odd that a government official was calling me at 7pm at night especially since govt. officials almost world wide are known for working light hours and are out of the office as soon as the clock hits 4 or 5pm. But I wasn't going to argue, I was glad.


Alessandro was also summoned at the same time. We were ushered in and Ms. Spedicato processed us at the same time. As she went through my documents she came to the letter from Ryerson. After reading it she asked me if I paid for it. She was appalled at the fact that there were 4 spelling mistakes in it! She immediately called up Mr. Ferguson and asked him how a letter from a well established university in an anglophone country could possibly submit a letter with spelling mistakes. He apologised profusely to both her and me and offered to write another letter. Ms. Spedicato informed him that I had gone all the way to Ottawa with that letter to get it legalized and did not have the time to do so again.


She did suggest that perhaps he misspelled 'Sacred Heart' as 'Scared Heart' since he issued the letter on February 13th, however there were three other errors that could not be condoned.

"Would you please refund her money Sir?", she asked in a polite yet stern manner.


Ms. Spedicato was not to be messed with.


I got my DV processed and I got my $15 back from Ryerson the following week.


Italy here I come!