A Dingo Ate My Baby!!!
Either that, or I just finished applying for my visa. The internet may be a bit of a no-mindo void sometimes, but it sure is convenient! YAH YA ARE! I did it electronically and it felt oh-so-good. I've got confirmation numbers and passwords comin' out of the yin-yang, but in two or so weeks, I should get an email saying, "Sorry sir, but it appears you put 'member of Colombian drug ring' on your application so we're not letting you in".I left work early today (always, ALWAYS a good thing) to meet up with a UWoll representative. I was all, "Should I or shouldn't I? Should I or shouldn't I?" and then finally I decided I should go. It was completely worth the drive and the time and the effort. Trish is the manager of the study abroad program at the uni and she had so much to say that was really helpful.
She made a really good point. Or rather, several good points. She said that for 5 months, the best way to meet people, hands down, is to live in residence. I had not been planning on staying in them, but when you factor in all the other expenses of renting something off campus, she really is right. So now I'm trying to pick where I want to live. Weerona looks the best as of right now.
I would like to take this opportunity to announce that none of this would be possible without my parents. I'm trying to work hard and safe up, but in reality, they are the major players in this whole endeavour. My corporate sponsors, if you will. YAH YA ARE!
In an effort to save up some money, I'm not going to buy myself Starbucks or Tim Hortons until 1 week before I leave for the Gong. I've had to work around the system on two occasions in the last week and a half (ie, getting Megs or Ashlee to buy MY Tim Ho's and I buy theirs), but it's just an effort to ensure that I'm not frivolously throwing away money on less important things. Like being responsible and not being a little spoiled brat who expects everything to be paid for!
I think I shall make a list of things I need to do in the next little while (AU related):
- Make an appointment to visit my bank and discuss money matters
- Fill out a residence application and submit
- Find out about freezing GW membership
- Find out if I can get a rebate on unused car insurance
- Call BCAA and ask about international driver's license
- Get a 2005 Contiki brochure (I grabbed '04 by mistake!)
- Organize all my W'Gong papers into one evil pile/folder
- Purchase Lonely Planet: Australia and PERUSE
- Find immunization card to prove that I do not in fact have rabies
- Email all the nice people and tell them I've decided to live in res rather than rent
- Email Trish when she's back in W'Gong to thank her for being so lovely!
- Get in touch with Rose and pick her brain (buy her coffee!!!)
- See how much it will cost to get passport notarized (for Miss Loses Everything)
- Email cousin Bryan and tell him how much I love him and then ask him if he can get me a deal on a digital camera (he manages a Future Shop)
- Sit still for a moment and let it sink in that I am leaving in.... *counts*... THIRTY-FIVE DAYS
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra
Gay your life must be!
posted by Sara @ 2:19 PM
3 Comments:
I had no idea that you were updating this so much. I feel awful for only visiting your other page. Well, here I am--more to read for me, huzzah! (that was a Sara word that I stole).
Anyway, as great as this blog is, I still want a date with Sara to discuss this stuff in person.
I'm so excited for you. I'm not sure it's sunk in yet that you are leaving for so long. Silly me! You're gonna be missed :) Let me know if there is anything I can do to assist the process of you getting to Aus and stuff.
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That's not Weerona. That's "We're on her", just said with an Aussie accent.
And if Stef wants an Aussie she can come here and get one. We have 350,000 going spare, mostly living in Earls Court.
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