UPDATE: For those of you who don’t live in Buenos Aires this post won’t make much sense, but to help you along, click here and read about the moneda situation.
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I was looking at the instructions for obtaining my Italian passport on the website of the Italian consulate in San Francisco, as I’ll have to obtain it in person there.
The fee is US $110.50.
The first thing I said to myself when I read that was, “Oh good, I’ll get monedas back!”
I’ve been here too long… 
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*monedas = change, coins.
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Tina, yesterday we were at the Retiro station, and there was a huge, huge long line of patient people, wrapping around forever. I had to know what it was for, and was shocked that it was to get coins!! It was an instant polaroid of how bad the situation is here.
Much less than purchasing a UK passport.
That equals $190.00.
Katie, does that include your citizenship too?
I should point out to non-BA folks that the reason I posted this is because here in Argentina there is a coin shortage, so we’ve all gotten into the habit of hoarding all the coins, because buses only take coins. So I was looking at the price and even though it’s not Buenos Aies, I thought “Oh, goody, I’ll get change back!”
And in the US I dump coins every month so they do not weigh on my shoulder. Since the toll roads now have epass transponders and I no longer go to laundromats, don’t have much use for the coins. We even have coin sorting machines in the supermarkets so we can get paper money in exchange. Most bus and subway systems have pass cards purchased with credit cards, too.
I find myself feeling absurdly grateful to receive change now that I’m visiting the U.S.
Thank you–you don’t know how much this means!
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