I feel just like a child

Friday again... but this time I have no tremendous story to tell because there haven't been any tremendous events in my Vancouver existence this week. I've been sitting at my desk for the past 2 hours trying to decipher a Canadian government website because I need to download some forms. When I moved here, I assumed bureaucracy would end and government websites would be easy to navigate.

Right. Bureaucracy is kept at a bare minimum here in B.C....standing ovation. For instance, when I acquired a used vehicle two months ago, I braced myself for at least a month of paperwork and permits and photocopies and all kinds of unnecessary steps to transfer the car's ownership, register it, buy insurance and get my license plates (The horror, the horror). Little did I know about British Columbian efficiency: I went to an ICBC office (conveniently located everywhere... even in shopping malls) with the vehicle's previous owner and in less than 7 minutes I was the rightful owner of a car with new license plates and insurance. The lady just opened a drawer full of license plates and asked me which numbers I liked best! I remember back in Mexico City when you had to wait for over a year to get your license plates... and every single new car had to drive around with a paper photocopy of their license plate taped to their back window for a year. Incredible.

Wrong. Federal government websites here are as confusing as in my country. It seems as though people that create government websites live in a world detached from reality, and even speak a different language. They assume that you already know the names of all the forms and procedures and requirements...and they don't have the courtesy to provide a "search" bar. Anyway, I'm lost in a website and with all this legal mumbo jumbo that I'm trying to decipher, I feel just like a child.