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Hong Kong - Disneyland

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So, having accepted a job offer in Tangshan for 12 months we needed to sort out my visa… Unfortunately, during the process of gaining the internship I was never advised what was required to change from a student visa to a working visa… one of the requirements was having your original degree certificates notarised by the Chinese Government and then by some other Chinese organisation or institution… seemed a little complex to me. My mother scurried and scuttled through my bits and bobs back in Australia and fortunately found my original certificates then sent them to me in ‘Express Mail’, which is not a thing in China so I received everything after about three weeks. The documents then had to be taken to Beijing during the blue moon in the year of the Hippopotamus under the veil of night on a magical unicorn with golden hooves… that is… getting a work visa is an exceptionally complicated process that takes a bloody long time and unfortunately, I was trying to sort mine out when th