Skyping, Ticket Time and VISA, Oh My!

Hello Everyone :)

As you can see I am down to 77 days now for how many days I have left and I thought I would update you on what has been going on. I have put a deposit my plane ticket :)  I will be landing in Gatwick Airport on Saturday August 17th at 8:50am (3:50am our time).

The other day I skyped with my family and got to meet all the girls this time plus the au pair that is staying with them now, Laura. I talked about her in one of my previous posts but I just want to mention, if I hadn't before, how helpful and kind she is. We added one another on Facebook and whenever I have a question that range from how it is in Uxbridge to how is she liking it there and she doesn't mind at all answering these, which I am grateful. So once again thank you Laura.

While we were skyping the girls mentioned that in about 2 weeks they are getting some new animals.......any guesses?   Clue #1: they are adorable Clue #2: they are fuzzy and sweet, did I say adorable?

Give up? Well they are getting 2 kittens :) So when I arrive the kittens will be a couple of months old and I am so excited about the kittens. Two of the things I need to leave behind when I go are my cats, Hank and Yogurt, and I know I may sound like a crazy cat lady but it'll be sad. Hank always sleeps at the end of my bed if he isn't being crazy around the house so it'll be weird not having him around.

ALSO to add onto this long post, sorry guys lots going on that I want to share, the girls asked if I was scared about anything to do with my trip and I told them the truth. I am scared about traveling by myself because I have never done it, I've always been with my family if I was at the airport or in a plane. And I must be really worried about it now because I had a nightmare last night about me not making my plane so I had to find another one and it was just really weird and stressful :P

Any who, I won't bore you anymore. Other than the skyping I have started the application for my VISA and other than figuring out my health insurance I will be all done paying for my trip :)

Thoughts...

Today as I was putting my iPod cover back on I noticed the inscription on my iPod that I had gotten many years ago when I first got my iPod. It reads, "Oh baby oh, oh the places you'll go", and this got me to thinking.

When I got that iPod I was just starting my first year of the Early Childhood Education program at Lambton. All I was thinking about was is my roommate going to be nice (which she is by the way, hey Krystal :)), are my classes going to be hard, how much homework will I have to do per week, will I have time to meet new people, will those people like me and so on! A lot of worrying anyways. 

If you had told me that in just three years time I would be flying over to England to be Mary Poppins to three funny and charming little girls I would say, "You gotta be kidding me! Me leave home? No way!" 

See a lot can happen in three years time. Over the course of those three years I have learned to be more independent, more confident (in some cases), less worried about what the future let alone the next day holds for me and who I am as a person. It took me three years to figure out that I could accomplish anything I wanted to when I put my mind to it and as soon as the idea of being an Au Pair came into my head last year I was going for it!

People keep telling me that this is going to be such an amazing experience for me and now, with thinking, I believe that it will too :)

Big Day Today :)

So how is everyone? Everything going okay? What's new with everyone?

Oh you want to know why today is a big day....well....it is now in the double digits of when I go away! That's right, only 99 days to go until I leave :)

I am getting so excited about going away, actually another piece of interesting news to follow this. I have met, through Facebook anyways, the au pair that is currently with the family until I arrive. She is from Canada like me and we're around the same age. We met one another through the SmartAuPairs group (all the au pairs that will be in the UK or are already there belong to this group so that we can meet up with one another) we both belong to on Facebook. And just seeing her pictures is making me even more excited to go over and go on little adventures :)

Only 99 days left guys! It's so close!!