Third week and counting
Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
As I wrote in the previous post I was considering joining the SSN (servizio sanitario nationale – Italian health service). Since I’m outside of the european community I have to pay based upon my income. The advantage of that is that it is only based on income and not age as most private insurance is […]
Third week and counting
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Oh those forms
Friday, September 14th, 2018
Now that I had submitted my application for the Permesso di Soggiorno I was told that the next step was to register with the city government for a residency document. Everyone who lives must register where they live and provide contact information and the city issues such a document. This is true also for Italians […]
Oh those forms
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Maybe that light at the end of the tunnel was a train…
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Ah the first week in Bologna. I had a lot of things to do. First, I knew that there were no sheets for the bed in my apartment so I had arranged ahead of time to borrow a set from Cesarina. So for that reason and the fact that I had left a bunch of […]
Maybe that light at the end of the tunnel was a train…
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