July 2013 continued...

15^th July 2013 – Today is the day!!!

Its been one long day. Had to be on the airport for 8am where I met up with Beth, Abi and Hayley. Firstly the traffic was at deadlock and then saying bye to my family was the hardest thing I have done. Once we got through security and ate, it was our time to go to the gate, then we heard over the speaker “please can Abi, Emma, Beth and Hayley come to the boarding gate please” everything was going through our minds however we didn’t expect what was coming next “you’ve been upgrade and here are your new boarding passes” Oh my god I couldn’t believe it Abi had got us upgraded, upper class was amazing. It was a great way to start the experience of a life time.

                Once we arrived at Vista Way, we had to check in, we got our welcome packs with were we were going to be living for the next year and information on our busy schedule for the week ahead. This is when I found out all my friends were living in Vista Way and I got my last choice Patterson Court, I was already very emotional and I didn’t know what to do, I just wanted to get back on the flight home. After the welcome presentation I got taken in a bus to my new home this is when I started to fall in love even though it was raining Patterson looked like heaven compared to Vista Way. Once I had moved in I met all my roommates and instantly new we would get on so well. It was a big shock when I realised I was living with 5 other English girls as I thought Id live with people from all over the world.

But here goes to the start of a new year in AMERICAAAA!!!!

The first night I went with my roommate Hannah to Walmart and soon realised I had to hunt for everything as everyone had seemed to of been in there before us and taken everything. We managed to find bedding, toiletries and basic foods and just thought we’d come back another day, when leaving Walmart we realised we couldn’t get home so we jumped in a taxi who obviously knew that we were new to the area as we got a $15 ride which actually cost us $30, definitely learnt my lesson and will not be doing that again.