Went to the Embassy today. I started to line up in the pouring rain for 20 minutes – One bright sight is that there was a very-nice looking security guard. “If I only had his number” ;)
Well it was finally my turn, went in handed over my cell-phone and iPod. Went through the metal detector, while my bag where screened. Went in took a number and waited and waited and waited. Until my number was called, I handed over my documents and passport and sat down again. She wrote down the time 10.17 on the paper. Then a few minutes after waiting. My name was called and I went up to another desk where I was asked a few questions, basically why do you want to go to and what I will do there. Then I had to explain that I wasn’t going to Redmond, WA like the address on the paper said but to an unknown address in Boulder, CO - because my host family would move location. In the end I got a folder about my rights in the states and she said “well have a nice trip” – end of discussion.
To sum up – I think I will get my visa. I sure hope so; since they kept my passport :) they normally say 2-3 days.
Then I went to MyEducation to get some papers, flight plan/ticket, shuttle ticket, health insurance card, au pair folio and some baggage tags. I should have meet a Danish girl called Mette, who will attend the same workshop as I. Though we won’t be traveling together since we depart from 2 different airports. She had a later appointment at the embassy, so I went home and texted her that she could contact me if she wanted to meet and that she could find me on facebook.
So I think I’m good right now, have a lot of things to read, skimmed it earlier – again a lot of information which I already know. Think I’m going to read it in small doses, so I won’t fall asleep. Hope my visa will get here in a few days.
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