i need to get these letters or i'm getting deported by may 5th

have you ever been in one of those situations when after it happened all you can do is stare off into space and say, did that really just happen?'
well, within the minutes of my statistics class starting i had this moment of complete disbelief when a girl at my table told us she couldn't be in class today because she might get deported!

yes, you read that correctly...deported.

and of course my idiotic response is, 'are you canadian?' because she didn't look hispanic and for no crazy reason did i think, people can come here from other countries...but this thought is not the point to my story.

She starts off telling us she was a felon but that the charges got ex-sponged (??) and then goes on to pretty much tell her life story. (yeah, she just kinda squeezed that part in...no biggie)

and yes, you read that correctly...felon.
do we know why? no
are we curious?
hell yeah

well, her life story... she moved here from ukraine when she was three with her mom (she is ukrainian, not canadian...just to make that clear).
she does, 'not speak, read, or write ukrainian,' but has to go prove her marriage of three years is legitimate and that she is not a mail-order bride.

yes, you read that correctly...mail order bride

five or so years ago, her cousin wanted to get out of ukraine, to her cousin there was only one option...to sell herself over the internet.
four kids later and living in canada the government has found her, as well as the girl in my class...who again, let me reiterate has lived in the united states with her green card since she was three!!

she had to skip class today...with a note from her lawyer to go get letters from specific people to prove she is in love with her husband. they have been together for seven years, but got married when she was 18.

one letter she needs is from the videographer who taped her wedding...what the hell?!?

their marriage is legit people!
is the government stupid? lets go over this again shall we...
lived here since she was three...legally!
she has been in the same relationship for seven years...that is no fluke.
and this situation has nothing to do with her!

it's her cousin that, again...sold herself to get to the united states, and doesn't even live here anymore. she's in freaking canada.

she tells us this story and sadly we started laughing, because we were in complete shock and the way she was telling the story...complete annoyance by the way...it just came across funny.
when our teacher finally showed up to class she explains the story to her (in less detail) but we hear her yell;

'i am not a mail-order bride'

and then our teacher whispers something to her...which we plan on asking about next week.
--our teacher is interesting, don't worry about it.--

then it actually hit us what was actually happening.

it really isn't that funny. this chick might get deported for something she has nothing to do with to a country she really knows nothing about!

that's f**king crazy!

until next week, the four girls at my table are just going to wonder, and ask the questions; 'what did our teacher really say to her?'

not; 'is she getting deported?'


what i am interested to see are the ads on my page later...you know with the words like, 'mail-order bride,' 'deported,' 'government,' etc.
hopefully i don't get traced...shoot.