Tako á Feira » ICEX

Paperwork!

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:04:12 +0000

These days I’ve been very busy with paperwork. Past Friday (September 5, 2008) I went to the Japan Embassy in Madrid to deliver all the forms required for the visa. These are the forms:

ICEX letter
“Verbal note” [difficult english translation, I don't even know what this means in Spanish] from the External Affairs Ministery, which I got before going to the Japan Embassy
Copy of the “contract” signed with all the conditions
Passport

It was a good experience to be in Japanese ground. In a matter of seconds I entered a place where all the ads and notices were written in Japanese They even had a “chiisai neko” (little cat) playing around. Everybody seemed to speak Japanese but the gard who must be from Madrid!

At first sight they looked efficient, there were not queue, just one Japanese guy. When my time arrived, they recognized as soon as I mentioned the word ICEX. Once finished, they told me they will call me in a week aproximately… I wish everything goes fine, but I wouldn’t mind having some days more at “casiña” before leaving to conquer the East.

The Regus Building

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:50:48 +0000

After the bloody selection for the grant in CECO Building, the strongest, the chosen meet each other day by day in the new battlefield: The Regus Building.

Here we take the lessons each day, some are boring, others don’t… but the truth is that the moments we spend there are priceless (specially the ones after… when we go to have some “after lessons”’s beers).

Regus

Opening

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:00:02 +0000

For those of you who doesn’t know me, my name is Germán Lado Insua and I’m one of the lucky recipients of an computer science ICEX grant for the year 2008-2009.

This is the first article in my new blog. The aim of this blog is to gather all those (weird, interesting…) moments that I’ll experience during my 15 month staying in Japan. During that time I’ll be in charge of the IT Department of the Spanish Embassy of Tokyo.

I’ll try to travel around Asia and other countries the more I can. I’ll also try to accurately write my adventures in the far East

I must say that I’m still polishing the visual/technical aspects of this blog, so don’t be afraid if you notice a lot of changes