Testing, testing

Having never traveled outside of the Eastern Seaboard many are surprised that I'm going to be spend 10 months in France.  I mean I've never even flown before and the most foreign experience I've had is encountering tourists at work.  That changes tomorrow.  I leave on a late night flight to England for 8 days.  I've manged to squeeze everything I'll need into my suit case but I have a feeling I'll want a bigger one in a few months.  I'm even doing a mini exchange and going to school in Blackburn for a day.  So this is me getting a bit of exposure to the world and hoping that I don't get sick on the flight.
                                       

Visas

While I'm still waiting on a host family I have begun the arduous task of beginning my Visa paperwork.  It feels like I'm drowning.  I need so many copies of this, that done a certain way and the other thing translated.  If you've ever had a visa before you know what I'm talking about. Its a pain in the neck.  It's also going to cost me about 200 dollars and a trip down to DC towards the end of July.  Oh and I can't even complete it before I have my host family.  Out of our local group 50% have been placed.  Sadly I'm not in that 50% but I'm hoping it will come soon.  So here's to a day of printing, paperwork and probably a healthy dose of screw ups and re dos.