a place and a name

Yesterday we went together to the City Hall (section Feyenoord) to arrange the recognition of the unborn child. In this way it is possible for me to register the child when it's born as his/her father, otherwise it has to be done by the mother.

As things stand now, our child would be a Rotterdam born child. A truly Feyenoord baby (South of Rotterdam).

We also had to decide which surname we shall give to the baby, and it is Paiva Aranda. Both my surnames because according to Dutch law those two names together are my name. Under Venezuelan law it would have been Paiva Hubert.

I had a little discussion with the public servant who arranges the documents, because I was not allowed to use my fountain pen to sign the documents. She said that everything should be signed with a special "act pen". I looked at the pen she handed me and it was a cheap promotion pen from an insurance company. Unbelieveable...