I’m borderline totally freaked out. Trying to push everythign as far out of my mind as possible but it keeps creeping back into my head, why the heck do I not just stay home in my little town and do some normal things?! Nope, I always have to go abroad and not see my family and friends for a while and wander off. Yeah. I sit in my teenage room here and I’ve got all my things here and I get really sad about only being able to take two suitcases along. Stupid, huh? It’s not like I need all the crap that I have here but I get melancholic even when I take one of my mugs out of our kitchen cabinet to make tea. STUPID!
It’s just kind of weird, seeing that I was waiting for this visa to go through since August and now that it’s finally close to happening, I panick because it’s all going so quickly (the plan is to get the OK on Friday, have a party on Saturday (you’re invited if you’re near Hildesheim!!)receive the visa on Monday, fly out Tuesday). Though thinking about that, I might have to fly out Wednesday so I don’t have to panick about not getting my passport in time. Hmmmm. Something to think about in case I do get it.
Ahhhhh! I’ll be back in a year, nothing to worry about but ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Anyway, I’m collecting binding ties right now. What do you think? work contract for 01/01/2009, letter from my local sports club, my local registration card (Meldebescheinigung), list of upcoming big family events in Germany, liability and glasses (Fielmann Nulltarif :-D) insurance contracts, bank account statement, print outs of my stock funds (not that I have many but I figure stocks are kind of a long term investment so it might be a good thing to take along). Other than that I could take a photo of the German boyfriend and me or a letter from my parents saying that all my crap is at their place and I’d better get back and take care of it. Any other ideas? *panicks*
8 more days…
… until I know if I’ll get my internship visa or not! I just set up my appointment at the consulate a minute ago. Loads of things to do now! Yikes! But yay, only 8 more days of uncertainty! Woot! 😀 Thanks for crossing your fingers so far! Keep going pleaaase! 🙂
Protected: Annoyances
Another 52€ to Fedex
Unbelievable but I finally have all the forms ready to send to my J1 sponsor after having talked to the HR girl today. Woot! So I’m gonna get up early tomorrow, dress up and put make up on and hope that the Fedex guy will be super hot – I’m thinking sexy UPS guy from that sex and the city episode where Samantha gets a delivery. Haha! Well, quite honestly, the last Fedex guy was really smelly and not looking like anything to write home about so I don’t have any hope. Well, long as my documents get to the big apple quickly I don’t care though.
Other than that, life is going well. I’m still slaving away and am supposed to cook another feast tonight. Last night was a whole roasted chicken with carrots and potatoes and tonight will be chicken frikassee so yeah never anything simple like the things I ate when my Mom still cooked. Hmpf!
Friday night however I met with my girls+Jens and we had drinks at the new local bar Zeitlos. Now I keep complaining about German waiters not checking up on how things are but the guy there really annoyed us with his “Ist alles schön?” (Is everything beautiful?) every fifteen minutes or so. He stopped that after I told him before he could ask that “Alles ist schön!”. Good times though and I can’t wait to do our Sex And The City night on Thursday. Yay!
Saturday my Mom and I hit the town and boy was I exhausted afterwards. I guess a slice of pumpkin bread (yum!) wasn’t enough to get me through a hard day of shopping.
So Sunday I relaxed and then went to my cousins to have my diploma scanned. He also gave me some cool Photoshop plugins so I need to install those at some point. Later Massimo came by to sign my visa forms and I showed him the medieval houses of my city. Damn freezing in this country so we had some hot tea and some good talks at a café afterwards.
Monday I slaved away like normal but I also got to do some nordic walking in the forrest (where it was freeeeezing) and now I’m sore but hey, that’s a good reward, right?! 🙂