Tuesday, June 1, 2010

2 Months, 9 Weeks, 62 Days Before Departure

So here we go,

Ive decided that this whirl wind trip must be documented and theres no better time to start than now when all the organising is at its peak and University is coming to a close here in Sydney. I suppose i better write a bit about myself otherwise the intimate and personal blog that i planned of having will not even have those aspects within my first post, and we dont want that now do we?

My name is Nick, im 19 and studying at Macquarie University in Sydney doing a Bachelor of Media, thats all the formal stuff you need to know about me. Exchange has always been something i have wanted to do since my school offered it, and I was not one of the lucky ones who got to go. All that doesnt matter now, one of my goals at University was to get onto the exchange program, something I achieved after 1 year of studying there. Im off to the University of Arizona in Tucson! Not only that but I consider myself to be one of the luckiest guys on the planet in that I am going with my bestfriend and possible love of my life. The odds of this happening we considered to be very low and we were already discussing what we were going to do if one of us went and the other didnt. All that doesnt matter now cause we are both off to the same place and off on an adventure of a life time!

So theres a little background of my situation. I only have this week left at my home University and last week we booked our flights for the 1st of August. Our VISA's are our next plan of attack, which will hopefully be rectified next week. But weve had the little problem of accomodation where we have applied for housing on campus yet have heard nothing back from it. It has caused us to look elsewhere off campus for housing, but from what Tucson has to offer seems to be nothing special as a lot of the places seem to have terrible management, dirty, unsafe and just overall bad reviews. We are going to apply for two places and fingers crossed they might turn out alright.

So what have we learned from this first post?

  1. This semester at University was an anticlimax where nothing really happened...
  2. The right housing is hard to come by
  3. Theres an airline called Delta?
  4. I will never think of whipped cream the same... (more of that another time)
The days are coming closer, the excitement is rising!

Cheers

Nick