In The Beginning...

Due to being prompted by my mother, and being incredibly anxious to get on my way to London, I have gone ahead and created this blog.
The purpose behind this blog is to update anyone who may be interested about my adventures whilst studying abroad, which means that until I leave I probably won't update much and that once I return from my studies, this blog will be more or less obsolete.
You've been warned.
Let's first discuss my adventures in actually getting to the point I'm at (that point being waiting anxiously to get approved for my visa, trying to figure out which cell phone to buy, and wondering how the crap I'm suppose to figure out all of this other business...)
Honestly, I thought I had all of the hard work done once I sent in all of my applications to IES to actually get in the program.
I was misled into believing that it would all be smooth sailing from there.
But no.
No, applying for a visa has to be a big pain in the butt.
I don't know how it is for other countries, but for the UK they encourage you to apply as early as possible, but then won't let you actually apply until 3 months before you leave.
So you wait until you can apply, and you do the first step, but then you have to wait another month before you can get an appointment with the US Department of Homeland Security to get your "biometrics" done (eye scans, finger scans, digital photo, it's like something out of a really terrible science fiction movie to be entirely honest.)
To be entirely honest though, I found myself looking forward to the eye scans, I like ridiculously science fiction-like things like that. I was then sorely disappointed to figure out that they haven't actually instituted the eye scan part of the biometrics thing yet. It's sort of in transition right now.
THEN, once you get all of that done, you send that in, plus you application and your passport, and wait a month to get approved.
I'm currently waiting. I'd say I was in the middle of waiting, but I'm not--I just sent in my visa application today...or yesterday since it's 2am now...
But at least I have no control over that anymore, right?
On the one hand it's cool that I have to get a visa since it means I can work in the UK (which is nice when the exchange rate is 2 US dollars to every pound...) but it's quite a bit of work right now, which is tiring and annoying when you were hoping to have a nice, relaxing summer.
Alright, it's bedtime and I'm tired. I'm sure I'll have something more interesting to say later....maybe.