In two months from today I will have arrived in New York and will be at the Departure Orientation!!! That is super-duper exciting but also makes me a little nervous because there is so much that still needs to be done! I have to get my visa (which is a process in and of itself), learn more Spanish (haha, yeah right) and do everything that has to be done right before I leave (packing, making long lists of everything I will need, etc.). But I CAN'T WAIT!!!! I am also really excited to fly by myself because I have never done this before. This might seem lame but I am excited. Here are some random things that have occurred since the last post:
1. I got accepted into School!! :) I will be attending IES (that stands for Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria) Jorge Marique in Tres Cantos. It is about a 10 minutes walk from the house and I
think that Pablo will be going there, too. I got a student ID card, too:
2. There are tons of other people going to Spain from the US and other countries. A girl from the US made this map on Google showing all of the places everyone is going:
View AFS Spain Placements in a larger map
Thanks to Amy King for telling me how to put a preview of it up! (If you want to see her blog (she is also going to Spain) here is the link:
http://amymargaret.blogspot.com/
3. I have received the majority of the documents that I need for my Visa!! I am now only waiting for the stuff from AFS and then I am good!! Yay! I am super excited to go to San Francisco for many reasons, some being 1) I have never been to California, 2) I just want to get all of the visa stuff sent off, 3) I will hopefully get to meet another AFSer going to Spain whose visa appointment is right before mine, and 4) I am going to do a bunch of fun stuff (like visit Alcatraz and ride bikes across the golden gate bridge)! (although i am not to excited about driving there... :P).
4. I had a really fun 4th of July and did a bunch of fireworks at a friends house! It was super fun!!! (Yay for fire! :D)
So that was a pretty quick summary of what has happened! My summer is going to be super busy until the beginning/middle of August (I go to a wedding, the to Alaska, then to California all within three weeks). But hopefully that will make the summer all that much better!! :) I can't wait!!! There is only 60 days, 16 hours and 48 minutes until my flight to New York leaves! (not like I am counting or anything.)
