Very Bad Blogger!

Ok, so the countdown is really on. It is only 45 days until I jet off, and it's been 25 days since my last update! So much for be blogging the week after my Visa appointment, yes this post is quite overdue, so I will get on with it, much to tell!

Visa Appointment:

So let's start with the sight seeing, on 7th April, me and my mum made the journey down to London for my appointment, and managed to see a few sights (We missed seeing Lizzie's house though, bad tourists!). Harrods was AMAZING, we spent so long in there, unfortunately, I didn't get anything Tiffany, how rude of my mother not to buy me a souvenir! In all seriousness though, the prices they charge for stuff is ridiculous! We also made it to Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford street, Westminster and a few other places, considering we were only there one night we managed to get a lot done! I was meaning to post some pictures from my trip but my mum's on holiday with the camera and I didn't want to leave updating much longer, maybe I'll sneak them in my next post :-).

My appointment was on the Monday at 11.30 and we arrived probably half an hour early once I'd dropped my phone off at the pharmacy for there to be people queuing outside, and from there I knew it was going to be a longgggg process. I won't go into too much detail into what it was like, but once you were inside it was honestly like a huge Argos, just without the items to purchase, obviously... I  managed to sit with some other lovely Disney people and thank god I found them, because if I had to spent nearly 3 hours alone listening to "Can 158 go to window 6 please." I may have gone a little insane. They definitely helped the time pass by, so thanks guys! 

I went to two different windows, the first  window I went to was to hand over my documents and have my fingerprints taken, the second was for my interview. This process, all together, probably took around 5 mintues and I was there for nearly 3 hours! The interview was fine actually, I was asked around 3 questions, only one was about me going to Florida, the others were about University, so all in all, it was nothing to worry about! I did kind of feel like I deserved more of their time for waiting for so long, NOT that I'm complaining, I happily walked off knowing my Visa was approved, which was the biggest hurdle to getting me to Disney!

I'm definitely going, eeeeep!

25 Days Later:

 This leads us up to today, and the reason I've not been blogging is, well there's not much reason actually, time is just flying. I am getting over ran with work from uni as my second year is nearly over. I am almost half way through my degree, shocking! So this is kind of why I haven't been updating as regularly. But, just over 2 weeks of hard work to go and then I can finally get really excited and prepared for my adventure across the pond. 

You're still coming along with me, right?

Until next time!  

 

Exciting times!

Well well well!

It's been a LONG time since I've updated! Simply because there was nothing really interesting to report, but a new post must mean...

IT FINALLY CAME!

After months of waiting my Disney pack arrived, a whole month later than we were all expecting may I add! It was SO exciting, and I was on placement when it fell on my doormat so of course the rest of the day went sooooo slow. But, as I opened it, excited with the prospect of the "few surprises" YJ were giving us, to finally see my offer letter, to begin my visa application...

It really wasn't all that exciting.

I mean yes, the offer letter was amazing, watermarked by Disney so you know it's the real deal, but the pack as a whole is like everyone says, kinda an anti-climax. I think everyone builds up a high expectation that something is going to jump out of the pack, a little Mickey maybe, and congratulate you on your success of getting onto the programme, and sing and dance your praises.

Like a dancing version of this guy!

But of course that didn't happen, and that's why you're kinda left feeling, a little disappointed. Who wouldn't want that... Right?!

But still, it came, which means it is so close until we leave, a little over 2 months is all that there is to wait, 2 MONTHS! And now placement is over, I can really start to feel excited about it, as I haven't had any time at all to even think of what I was having for tea that day, never mind the fact that my Disney journey is closing in, so eeeeep! (Little burst of excitement right there). I mean, when  I found out in November it was 8 long months away and now to think it's only 2 months away its beginning to make me panic a little. It's the time to get off my ass and actually organise everything! I've got so used to thinking it was agessss away I've been really relaxed about the whole thing but there's only 70 days to go, and there's a lot left to do, like one of the most important things, holiday shopping!

70 days until this becomes my reality!

So with the arrival of my Disney pack, it meant one thing, to apply for my Visa, which took me a little over 2 hours. The thought of doing it was really daunting, and when you see the US embassy logo thingy it's quite intimidating, but it's actually not all that complicated. The stressful thing is the to get everything completely correct, because you are really warned...

FILL THIS IN CORRECTLY OR YOUR VISA MAY BE REJCETED

MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO CUTS TO YOUR FINGER TIPS OR YOUR VISA MAY BE REJECTED

MAKE SURE YOU BRING THE CORRECT DOCUMENTS OR YOUR VISA MAY BE REJECTED

Now yes, that does all seem like common sense, but it still causes you to panic which is what made it take so long, and now I've confirmed my application I can't look back at it, which makes me a little paranoid in case of any mistakes, but que sera and all that! Nothing I can do now except go to the Embassy and await my fate. Something Walt said himself is quite prominent here...

But still, I hope I've done it right!

And I'll be going to the US Embassy in London in a week to hopefully have my visa approved. Quite a few people have been already and have described it like a big Argos, with a LOT of waiting apparently, and not being able to take any electrical items in there with you is going to make it a really fun wait if I'm there a long time, because the waiting time can fluctuate big time. With one guy only taking 90 minutes but another girl took 3 hours! To make things better I also have to go in alone. Woo fun!

But I'm really really excited to be going to London for that whole process, because it's one step closer to actually going! There won't be anything left to stop me from going, that's the final hurdle! And the fact that I'm scared of flying, but I'm trying not to think of that one!

So that's a quick catch up of what's happening right now, I'll update next week of how my appointment went, which I'm really scared about but hopefully I will be a happy chappy with an approved visa!

Wish me luck!