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SWIRLZ
Joined 2011
Posts: 474

9 years ago

Check your Ego

9 years ago

Having been here over 3 years now and having had to redo both our visas because our passports expired I'd like to made a statement based on several recent episodes i witnessed.

If you're coming here....leave your ego at home before you leave. You are not "special" and no one here gives a damn who you are, what you did back home, how old you are or especially that you think you are ENTITLED.

Believe it or not...YOU are a GUEST in this country and you really aren't "special" nor "better than" Ecuadorians (or anyone else for that matter. If you can't do this then you should really consider staying home. Expecting anything different will prove futile and in time you will join the idiots who can't understand why they don't speak English, why you need to prove you are single, why your wife has to show old divorce papers while the man doesn't, why they need your blood type and you have to take a test for a drivers license and why all the forms are in Spanish.

This is their country and they can have any rule/law they want. No questions asked.

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