Visit To the Consulate

I made my trip to the consulate on the twenty-fifth! The flight there was easily the worst flight I've ever had in my entire life. I got my first ever cold in the summertime (in case you didn't know, getting a cold in the summer SUCKS.) that I'm still recovering from, so my sinuses got all funkified by the pressure and I legitimately thought my head was going to explode and/or my eyes were going to pop out. After landing (and still being alive) I got bouts of vertigo all day, so it wasn't a great day for me. However, I did still get my visa application turned in, and I should be getting it back soon! The consulate "interview" sounds much more intimidating than it actually is. In my head, it was FBI interview in a metal room with a spotlight aimed on me. In reality, it was just me slipping a giant stack of papers under the glass (like at the movie ticket counter) and saying, "this should do it!" He didn't ask for anything else, so I'm hoping that that DID do "it." Plus, he said that I should be receiving my passport in the mail by the end of next week-ish. Sounds promising! Today marks exactly one month until I leave. I just got a snazzy new address book, so email me your address at gillian.c.harper@gmail.com if you want me to send you a postcard. Teachers, I'll be sending your postcards to the school, but if you'd rather I send them somewhere else just shoot me an email. I think almost all of my allowance (yes! I get allowance from rotary! Score!) will be going towards an ungodly amount of postcards, but I feel like I'll be having too much fun writing to my old friends to really notice the price tag. I'm not super techy, thus I have no idea why allow my text clumps into one big block even when I space it not paragraphs as I'm typing it. So either imagine a skipped line/indent when I change subjects, or explain to me how to make it work in really easy (preferably numbered)instructions. I'm finally starting preparations for my year abroad, and I gets more and more real with every day that passes! I've got just over a week until my seventeenth birthday, three weeks until my last day at work, and a month until I catch a plane to France! Ill try to keep this updated (I'd argue I'm doing pretty well thus far) so keep checking in! Or you can do this super spiffy follow by email thing. I had to watch a tutorial to manage to put it on this page, so someone had better use it! So... until next time!