Just Something...

So even though this is a blog dedicated to my trip and adventures that I'll have over there just wanted to brag about something. After three tough, hard working years I will have completed my College education :) Now for some back story: 

At seventeen, late birthday yeah me,  I had to decided what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and that's a lot of pressure. I thought I was ready to go to College and start "furthering my education" as my Poppa would say but it turns out I wasn't. After applying and eventually going to Mohawk College for Broadcasting I decided to drop out of my program after a couple of weeks and go back to high school for my leap year. This is, up to now, the best decision I have ever made. During the leap year I took classes that I was interested in, because I had already graduated and had all the credits I needed. I did a co-op at the Public School by my high school and loved working there, I finally knew what I wanted to do and was happy doing it which is the most important thing in life (to work at a job but it not feel like you're working at all because you love your job so much).

I applied at Lambton College for the Early Childhood Education program and fast forwarding to today I am only four weeks away from graduating from my second College program. It has been a busy and tough three years but I am so happy with all the hard work that I have done and so thankful for my friends and family supporting and helping me along the way. Without them I wouldn't be the person who I am today and be going on this grand adventure. Thank you :)



Remember feel free to comment and ask anything you like :)

Uxbridge and what it's all about

Hello again everyone! Even though I am not leaving until August I am going to try and update the blog every week to keep everyone up to date with what's going on and to even provide you with some information about where I will be actually staying for my year long visit. And yes all this information will be from Wikipedia for now.

So obviously to start off with Uxbridge is located in London, England and as the Mom tells me it's "only a thirty minute tube ride into the centre of London". It's a large town located in west London, England and is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

A little history lesson provided by Wikipedia, "Uxbridge also houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east of England was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Situated in RAF Uxbridge, the No. 11 Group Operations Room within the bunker took on a crucial rule during the battle and was later used during the D-Day landings."
Not very much stuff here as of right now but once I get talking to the family more and reading more about England and Great Britain I will get more on here I promise. And to end today I will leave you with some famous faces of Uxbridge. :)

Christine Keeler, iconic 1960s model involved in the Profumo Affair, was born in Uxbridge.
Bernard Miles (1907–1991), actor, writer and director, was born in Uxbridge.
John Stears (1934–1999), Oscar-winning creator of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, Star Wars robots R2-D2 and C-3PO, and the Jedi Knights' lightsabers, among other special effects, was born in Uxbridge.

First post!

Hello everyone!

Exciting news! I will be living in Uxbridge, London, England as of August 17th 2013! This whole process is finally coming together and feels real now. I want to thank everyone who helped me along the way, no this won't turn into an over run Oscar speech, you all know who you are.

This blog is for me to keep you updated on everything that's going on and all the fun and interesting adventures I will be taking.

So just so everyone is up to date one what exactly I will be doing/the process of things I will be going to England to be an Au Pair for a very lovely family and their three adorable kids (no I have not met them in person yet, just Skype, but they have accents how isn't that adorable??) Now here comes the kind of boring stuff. I found this program through the Lambton College career site, Scotia Personnel Ltd. (if you're interested in traveling and working while doing so defiantly check out there site, they run Summer Camps, hire Nannies, Au Pair etc.) they were really great with communicating with me through the entire process and in January I started getting matched up with families.

After reviewing the families I was matched with I set up interviews with two of them and through just a phone call I knew I had the right family. So that's that.

Feel free to comment on any of the posts and ask questions! I love answering questions :)

ttfn :)