california certification - first from my school to apply

Hello,

I am a German nurse with a green card through marriage who has been going through the certification process with the California Board of Nursing.

* I and another graduate from my school in Germany are the first to apply for a california licensure. I don't know her personally, but I've heard about it secondhand.

I'm done with almost all of the steps except:

* The Board does not have our school's cirriculum in their database. This is needed to go past the first step.
* My school does not communicate in English very well, but they have sent a 300 page school cirriculum to the board.

The board sent 70 of the 300 pages back to me and asked me to translate them through a certified translator. This will cost at least $2000... and it's not even all of the documents.

At this point:

* The first part of the 70 pages has a summary of the education--would it hurt me to just translate 20 pages and let the board ignore the rest?

Has this happened to anyone else here? It's difficult to be the first! I don't know what the situation is like with the other girl who went to my school.

I will also ask the board, but it's very difficult to get replies as I can imagine they are overloaded.

They even keep sending mail to an old mailing address that I changed more than 3 months ago; I just want to get this over with as quickly as possible!

Does it hurt to email or write a letter? Any advice? It's been a torturous months long process!

Thank you!