Visa Application: sent!

I got everything together for my visa application and it will be arriving in Montréal at the Consulate on Tuesday morning :)

I didn't end up needing a police clearance, and I only had to send one of my guarantee forms (both pages of course) and one visa application. I hope that there will be no problems with anything that I have sent. I feel like it would be just my luck that I messed something up and that I wouldn't be able to get my visa and have to redo and resend the entire application...

But if everything goes according to plan, I should have my visa and passport back before Canada day! And most definitely before I go to the Central States conference in July! Wooo it's all happening so fast!

I'm still waiting to get a letter back from my host mom. Canada Post being on strike certainly doesn't help matters along -.-

High school is almost over! I graduate in 9 days! I'll be starting to study for exams tomorrow. I would have sooner, but I've been busy with work, preparing my visa application, and other school assignments. At least I only have three exams this semester.  I was just talking to my host sister earlier and she was telling me that she had ten written exams and three oral exams! That's insanity. I'm going to have to be doing that next year. I don't think I'll be able to handle that!

I can't believe that at one point I didn't think I'd end up going on exchange. I remember a couple years ago I had a steady boyfriend who I didn't want to leave and I remember I was considering going on exchange then, but (temporarily) decided against it because I wanted to stay here with him. We ended up eventually breaking up for other reasons, and I'm glad that I was young enough to still have this wonderful opportunity available to me. Now, I believe my year away would have most definitely be worth the time spent away from someone I love. But somehow I still manage to regret a little about not going on exchange earlier! Then I could have been a yo-yo! (an exchange student who went out on exchange twice!)

The moral of the story is, to anyone considering going on exchange, DO IT. Don't let anyone ever hold you back. Because it will be worth it :) You don't want to regret giving up an opportunity such as this when you're older. I have adults constantly telling me how lucky I am to have had this opportunity and that they wish they could do an exchange.  Don't grow up to be like those people! Do an exchange :)