The Waiting Game

Hey everyone,

My name is Emma and I am another fellow blogger who is about to head off on my overseas exchange to Maastricht, Holland. Everyone keeps asking me how I chose Holland, am i learning the language?, or do I have family there? The answer to both of those is 'no' and is the most randomest choice I have ever made, but im sticking with it and will definatly be an amazing experience!

Its crazy how quickly this has all come around, I am leaving this sunday and only just feels like yesterday when I got this crazy idea in my head that I should do something like this haha. I dont actually begin uni untill 26th august but am travelling around europe for a few weeeks heading to germany, switzerland, italy, france and belgium, so will nice to head into a bit of warmer weather hopefully.

The hardest part about the whole application process has been getting my residency permit for the netherlands accepted, there are all these requirements that need to be met and is pretty strict. But it finally got approved a couple of weeks ago which was a major relief.

The past month or so has been pretty much a waiting game, working hard trying to save as much money as I can.. Have my last shift tomorow so all the hard work will finally pay off soon! I sort of have mixed feeelings about leaving at this stage, sad to leave all my friends behind and scared/excited about starting a new chapter of my life! Am defintly not looking forward to the 30 hour plane trip by myself haha, although I know as soon as I get there it will all begin to feel exciting and real!!

This week is very busy sorting out everything, moving out of my flat, saying good bye to friends, family dinners, etc...

anyway will keep you posted on how my flight , travels and uni orientation goes!! sounds like O-week over there will be way out of controL! haa

Emma