So here I am sitting in my room hoping that the Belgian Consulate in Los Angeles calls me tomorrow about my visa questions. I’m not in Belgium yet, not for another 6 months, but it is time to get serious. I’ve been serious for a long time; I started taking French at my college in August and passed French 1 with an A. I now find myself in my 2nd week of French 2 hoping I can keep up as I did in French 1.
Every day I have a moment where I get a little nervous. I am moving to a completely different country. I have spent a lot of time in Belgium in the past year, but nothing compares to being there fulltime with no return ticket to San Francisco. I love my fiancé so much and I know with him I can make it, but everything can be a bit scary. I mean my only family there would be his and we didn’t get off to the best start; even though with the new year we decided to put things behind us I still don’t know about being there full time with these people as my only source to turn to.
Other things to be nervous about is the prospect of finding a job. I have looked into jobs and I even applied for one of them. There is another I am looking at on the SHAPE military base. Off the base many of the jobs I found some jobs, but they all require English (easy), French (eh—I can) and Dutch (WTF?!), that’s the thing with moving to a country with 2 national languages. We will see how this job thing works.
The exciting part is that my fiancé bought us a new car. I am not one for driving a stick as he learned when he tried to teach me and because his car is a stick and it was old and he got his money out of it, he bought us a new car that is a automatic -- http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a318/moonyangel7/car.jpg Isn’t it cute?
Part of my current journey is finishing school. I graduate on May 25 if this semester goes well. I am trying my hardest, math won’t be fun, but I have to do it! I am applying to the Global Studies Program and San Jose State to get my next degree. It is totally online and the cool part is that you have to do an overseas internship…will already be overseas. Another current journey is planning this wedding, which most of my posts will be about until July 9. I sent out a third of the Save the Dates and I can’t wait to send the next batch.
Until Next Time…
Love,
American Chocolate (still in America)
