The week from hell...otherwise known as Week 13

Ok, so apart from the Women's Basketball team losing the national final in overtime and me not being able to go to the Franz Ferdinand concert becuase of a migrane, there was one other things that happened this week that made it clearly the worst week of my time here.

Obtaining a Visa for Summer Camp

So anyone that has applied for US visa before knows that you have to have your visa documents before you can schedule a visa interview. Anyways, while dealing with the YMCA (the organisation thorugh which I applied for summer camp) they took forever to process my visa documents. So when I eventually went to book a visa appointment with the Toronto consulate all their appointments for the next 10 weeks were full, however becuase I was applying for a J-1 visa I am entitled to apply for an "expediated" appointment. However when I requested this over the phone the service agent on the other end told me that I could not have one as I was currently living in the USA, something which the US Government website did not indicate as a prohibition on obtaining an expediated appointment.

As such, after looking into options to have an interview in Mexico and even back in Australia, both of which came up fruitless, I have resigned to the fact that I will be returning home early, arriving in mid-June, to be precise. This is 2.5 months shorter then what I expected, and while I am indeed disappointed at this (since it was not through my wrong doing that I cannot stay longer) I am not going to let this diminish the rest of the time that I have here. As such, from May 15th (the day I am kicked out of Duke) I will be staying with "Crazy Rachel" (who some people at Bond may remember). She has graciously allowed me to stay with her in Lexington, Kentucky until I am "deported" (for lack of a better word, plus it sounds much more sexier then "didnt get a new visa"). I of course will try and make another one or two trips while staying in KY but the alure of $10 all you can drink for 3 nights of the week clearly is strong!!!

When I get back it will be too late to start at Bond for 062 so I will spend that time in Melbourne, having some time off (which is why I was doing the summer camp in the first place), and I will do some travelling around my country I think, like just take the car and go away for the weekend, or going to Tassie to see nan or Sydney to catch up with some friends.

Anyways, I hope everyone has a safe and pleasent Easter, and to those Bondies, good luck with your assignments and exams, mine are just around the corner, so I should actually try and do some work!!!

Chad