Greece is Hopeless. || Daughter | Divorce | Custody ||

some of you might well ask why am I in
Greeks why am i standing at the Piraeus harbour famous harbour from ancient Athens some of you might well say that my travel schedule makes no sense indeed it doesn't make sense I have made a series of perfectly rational decisions for entirely emotional reasons and those decisions ended up with me being here in the Piraeus harbour increase there's a lot of pressure on me to exhaustively research to try any and every possible method to get the paperwork to live in the European Union because my ex-wife my daughter and my divorce are going on within the European Union so if I could become a resident in Greece if I could after about five years become a citizen in Greece that would be a possibility I felt I had to explore and I was here on a twenty day trip exploring it and you know what it's hopeless I think it probably is impossible or if it's possible it's just barely possible and not really worth doing but I guess if I hadn't come here in person if I hadn't sort of turned over every rock then I wouldn't really know or I wouldn't feel that I know to the same extent and with the same death and the same gravity as actually coming here and I don't know getting my getting my feet wet getting my hands dirty rolling up my sleeves having the experience of living in Greece and looking into everything that would be involved becoming a Greek president Greek citizen including as you guys know the difficulty of learning the language the impossibility of doing anything in the Universities here by the way the Impala the incredibly limited options I would have here in terms of career come and investigate and see for yourself so I feel that with this trip to Greece the last remote possibility of me making a residence in Europe work is now coming to an end and indeed I mean there's a kind of strange parallel because why was I in Taiwan before this and I'm flying back to Taiwan after the way I really feel like the trip to Taiwan my current residency in Taiwan proves the impossibility of anything positive coming out of Taiwan for me at least at least in the long term so I'm once again in the uncomfortable dire desperate situation of having nowhere to go but my own homeland Canada I've also exhausted every legal possibility of making progress in French with that in France with that divorce case hiring lawyers in France hiring very expensive international lawyers that work back and forth between Canada and France trying everything possible just to spend time with my daughter and my ex-wife her most brilliant technique is just not having her lawyers reply to emails the French system is really deeply flawed it relies on me having paperwork I can't possibly get access to basically relies on you having reasonable cooperation from the other party in order to get divorced and if the other party just stalls and Stonewall's and refuse refuses to reply and refuse to communicate and refuse to give you the paperwork back refuses to sign paperwork when you presented with paperwork then the French process goes on forever so it looks like the only way forward for me in my life is to live for several years consecutively in Canada to try to file divorce paperwork in France from Canada and although you know you might say well that has some advantages a Canadian court can issue a divorce it can declare me a single man but it can't dictate the details of a child sharing arrangement you know it can't dictate the deals of when I see my daughter on school days or give me control over which school she's going to which incidentally under French law I'm supposed to have supposed to be consulted about all important decisions made in her life including when they moved to a new city or a new country when they enroll in a new school I'm supposed to be consulted and sign off on all these things and absolutely nothing like that has happened since the divorce so I came to Greece for her parietal regions but as they say it's a series of rational decisions made out of a kind of emotional desperation ultimately driven by my daughter those of you who have watched the YouTube channel for a long time will know why am i learning Chinese that also it's a long story ultimately as absolutely everything to do for my daughter to do with my daughter it's being done for my daughter and yeah you know there's part of you that says well if you can't make any progress legally and you can't make any progress in all these other ways you're trying shouldn't you at some point give up and start living your life with yourself as the top priority and a lot of you guys don't know this and it's hard to explain the reason why I left Victoria and moved to Taiwan also has absolutely nothing to do with my daughter the visitation schedule I had dictated by the court in France made it impossible for me to attend University classes at the University of Victoria so I was in effect forced to drop out of my university degree because of the the arrangements to see my daughter dictated by the divorce in this settlement fest and again in my mind I had to make a hard decision that it's like okay am I gonna stay in Victoria and attend University classes and burn my parental rights lose the right to see my daughter by breaking this custody agreement it's not technically it's not even an agreements just it's one-sided it's dictated by the court it's not an agreement nobody I didn't agree to it was just dictated one side of it am I going to give that up so that I can finish my university degree and make progress academically in my career or you know am I gonna regard seeing my daughter as the top priority and drop out of university and UVic at University of Victoria and guess what decision I made I made the decision to drop out of classes and make visiting my daughter spending time with my daughter the top are already in my life I know that's not visible to you guys because all you see is me sitting in an apartment recording YouTube videos talking about politics and then the summit's then you see bizarre situations like this but all of these decisions and this completely surreal travel schedule it has been directed by this overriding emotional priority are going to put it that my daughter and even my daughter's absence still brings into my life