The whole visa experience was as confusing and tedious as when I did it for Colorado. You have to ring up the American Embassy with their extortionate premium rate phone number to book your appointment, then you pay a ton of money for the privilege of potentially having a visa, then you fill out a ridiculous online form (the DS-190) that takes ages and gets a bit stressful when you worry you've not put exactly the right thing. Then you go to London and sit in the Embassy for 3 hours, to only speak to 2 employees for a grand total of about 3 minutes. Fun times for everyone. On the positive side, the girl at the first window I went to had actually done the CRP program herself and had actually just reapplied! It's a small world etc.
I've still got a load of things to sort out:
- Insurance
- Contacting tax and student loans people
- Organising a leaving do
- PACKING
Thing is, this would all be much easier to sort out if my brain were actually in gear. As it is, it still feels ages away (it's not. It's 42 days away) and I'm not even a little bit excited. I feel as if I should be but I'm just not. Hopefully I'll feel better when I manage to get a few more things sorted out.
