Busy day not working
Jul. 9th, 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI've accomplished several more crucial tasks towards settling into Milano. With luck I'll get them all done soon and can commence doing the work for which I've been hired. I suspect that it will be much more interesting than the bureaucratic stuff I've been dealing with, and I am ever so grateful to my colleagues here who have been running errands with me and translating as needed.
Today's accomplishments:
* paid for the deposit and first month's rent (this involved taking two buses into the city centre, where the other portion of the university is located, going to the housing office, taking forms from there across the street to the bank, depositing the money, and bringing in the stamped forms back to the housing office)
* obtained a local bank account into which my pay check will be deposited, once they start doing that (not before the end of the month, apparently; I'll be living more frugally than usual until then). (This involved walking perhaps two blocks past my apartment--I may not like cities, but there are some advantages.)
* Lunch! (The folk in our research team eat lunch together most days. It was kind of fun to sit there and try to make out where one word stopped and the next begun when they spoke Italian, and it is appreciated how often they switched to English to include myself and the German PhD student in the conversation.)
* obtaining a "numero di dodice fiscale" (works like a tax-file (Australian) or social security (US) number--this involved an early morning trip to the office, arriving five minutes before opening to discover a huge, noisy crowd waiting outside the door. At 9:00 the door opened, and the first 50 names from the sign-in sheet whcih had been outside the door were called in. The person who explained this to us was #68 on the list. The sign-in sheet had disappeared inside, so we left, and returned again an hour before closing, when we were helped fairly promptly surrounded by peace and quiet. Hard to believe it was the same place.)
* put the "numero di dodice fiscale" and the bank account numbers onto the form for the direct-deposit (alas, there are a few questions on the form for which we don't yet know the answer, so it will have to wait till tomorrow).
* learned how to access journals via this library's web page. (This one is actually directly related to work!)
Still to be done:
* acquire a health care card (now that I've got the "numero di dodice fiscale")
* pick up the forms from the post-office to complete my visa paperwork and get it extended for the full term of my contract
* obtain a local ID card
* find out what my e-mail address and password are for the account at this uni.
* find out what I'll be doing for work
Today's accomplishments:
* paid for the deposit and first month's rent (this involved taking two buses into the city centre, where the other portion of the university is located, going to the housing office, taking forms from there across the street to the bank, depositing the money, and bringing in the stamped forms back to the housing office)
* obtained a local bank account into which my pay check will be deposited, once they start doing that (not before the end of the month, apparently; I'll be living more frugally than usual until then). (This involved walking perhaps two blocks past my apartment--I may not like cities, but there are some advantages.)
* Lunch! (The folk in our research team eat lunch together most days. It was kind of fun to sit there and try to make out where one word stopped and the next begun when they spoke Italian, and it is appreciated how often they switched to English to include myself and the German PhD student in the conversation.)
* obtaining a "numero di dodice fiscale" (works like a tax-file (Australian) or social security (US) number--this involved an early morning trip to the office, arriving five minutes before opening to discover a huge, noisy crowd waiting outside the door. At 9:00 the door opened, and the first 50 names from the sign-in sheet whcih had been outside the door were called in. The person who explained this to us was #68 on the list. The sign-in sheet had disappeared inside, so we left, and returned again an hour before closing, when we were helped fairly promptly surrounded by peace and quiet. Hard to believe it was the same place.)
* put the "numero di dodice fiscale" and the bank account numbers onto the form for the direct-deposit (alas, there are a few questions on the form for which we don't yet know the answer, so it will have to wait till tomorrow).
* learned how to access journals via this library's web page. (This one is actually directly related to work!)
Still to be done:
* acquire a health care card (now that I've got the "numero di dodice fiscale")
* pick up the forms from the post-office to complete my visa paperwork and get it extended for the full term of my contract
* obtain a local ID card
* find out what my e-mail address and password are for the account at this uni.
* find out what I'll be doing for work
