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Ann · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 45

I can't wait (exactly a month from today) to go on my vacation to see my fiance in Germany.
This semester (summer session I) has been crrrraaazzzzyyyy!
All the best to all of you who are traveling.

M. · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 65 Location: Moskva

All the expats and Deutschers...tell me that Berlin is so wonderful in the summer. So far so good. It beats a kaltraum flat that I froze my behind off in this winter.

Laze about Berlin.................Sofia for a week. France for another........Then Japan...........to work maybe........or another Winter in �berallesland.........M.

Irish · Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 371

I've got one month off entirely, during which I'm trying to live the kind of life that all my mainland friends think I have. Then its back into classes so I can chip away at the bloody degree. I'm also job hunting but doubt I'll find anything. The job market here in paradise is positively anemic.

tjpnz2000 · Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 118 Location: Japan

Off to Thailand and Cambodia. Anybody who wants to come, the email is at the bottom.

drlubanski · Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 32

i'm going to Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and, maybe, Macedonia...from Saudi, via Bahrain.

MindTraveller · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 89 Location: Oman

I'm going to luxuriate (not a word, but an experience) in Vancouver, BC - in a WESTERN country and do all the WESTERN things I can't do here in the Gulf: walk, go to yoga classes, go swimming, read books in the library, see movies, - all kinds and not just Hollywood blockbusters, etc.

Then to the States to see friends. Being USA American, I can only be in the USA for 30 days or else I get taxed on my income.

Last summer I taught in the UK. A BIG MISTAKE. Rather than teach young kids, I got teenagers and French teenagers are horried. Plus the July weather in Oxfordshire was horrendus. I usually wore my long underwear because of the chill. It's one thing to hear about the bad weather in the UK, and another thing to live through a horrible July, in a small, remote British rural town.

A two-month paid holiday has often been difficult - two months to spend money. I've usually returned early because I ran out of money. I just wish I didn't NEED to the experience of being free in the West to get through next year..... or else I'd save money and go someplace cheaper.

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

I'm in Poland getting me jollies....Magda will you just stop doing that?I've had enough......

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 3:47 am Post subject: Foreign Income Exclusion

Dear MindTraveller,
Just a comment - possibly a correction, but given the obscurity of the tax laws, I don't want to say for sure - about this:

" Being USA American, I can only be in the USA for 30 days or else I get taxed on my income. "

I think - and hope, seeing as I've been in the USA for more than 30 days on my vacations - that you may be wrong about that. If you " pass the " Bona Fide Residency Test " ( " Were you a bona fide resident of a foreign country or countries for period that includes an entire tax year? " - source: 2555-EZ form ), then you can stay for more than 30 days. The only consequence is that, on Part IV of the form ( Figure Your Foreign Earned Income Exclusion ), you will enter, say, 316 days ( rather than 335 days ) on the line that asks for the number of days in your qualifying period that fall within the tax year. This means you won't get the full $80,000 exclusion, but, for example, with 316 days, your exclusion would be $69,040, instead. So, unless you're making a heck of a lot more than I am, that shouldn't be a problem.
Regards,
John

MindTraveller · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 89 Location: Oman

Thanks for the info that I can be in the USA longer than 30 days. I'll try it next summer.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:08 pm Post subject: I fought the law and . . .

Dear MindTraveller,
" I'll try it next summer ".
Well, if I'm wrong, maybe we'll get adjoining cells.
Regards,
John

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

me do celta in summer, then me teach english (i speak good) to forreners, get rich live big house with anteek furnichure and many forren wifes.

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

Me suggest that you come to Japan,make "big" money,buy "big" house and throw "big" party and invite Shonai Ben to the "big" party.
I am waiting for the "big" invitation!
Cheers. Cool

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Me invite Ben, but first me need degree for me poxy visa. Me wait... and wait... and wait!

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

OK.I will be waiting.God I have a lot of patience.
Of course you could just come here and take your chances.No guarantees though.Maybe better to wait.

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Yeah, I thought about it but what if I got caught and deported? Then where would I be? Not in Japan, that's where! (or where not, if you see what I mean).