53 days to go..

I haven't posted since finding out that I have been accepted onto another program but not a lot has happened since.
A few of us met up at the Trafford centre, was good to put a name to faces that I had been speaking to on the group and was lovely to catch up with my fellow team patty girl Soph! It's crazy how long you can spend talking to people that you have never met before about a shared passion.
As I did the program last summer and my J1 visa expired within the last 12 months, I do not have to go down to London for the appointment to renew my visa. I was able to phone the embassy, answer a few questions and then send off my passport and documents. Even though the guy on the phone said I would be able to get my visa I am still nervous for a few reasons, if it gets rejected or if my passport goes missing on the way to or from the embassy, fingers crossed it all goes to plan.
I am getting so so excited and ansy to get back to Florida. I miss the girls so so much and cannot wait to be finally reunited with them, 6 months is far too long and it will be 8 1/2 by the time I finally get there. We have already made so many plans for this summer, it's going to be amazing!
I have my last semester at uni, I'm only back for 3 1/2 weeks luckily, then it will be home to work and hopefully do my alternative placement.
I have been super keen and printed out my onboarding paperwork and now all I have to do is pay my medical insurance and program assessment fee, just a mere $330. All the more reason for this summer to be amazing!


xo

East coast to West coast

Even before we left for Florida, Rach and I had decided to travel across to California with one of her friends from home when we finished our programme. We left booking everything until last minute but it still all worked out pretty cheap.
On the 31st August we had to leave Patterson, Rachs parents had very kindly booked us in to a suite at the Animal Kingdom Lodge so we moved in there for a few days. It was nice to chill by the pool, top up our tans, I had been working crazy hours the previous couple of weeks so definitely needed a bit more colour! We were able to get in to Hollywood Studios using our I.D cards which allowed us to ride Rock 'N' Roller Coaster countless times and to also watch Fantasmic one last night. Brit had decided to fly down for the weekend, House of Blues was a must, no question about it!!

Our mini Florida vacation came to an end but we were off on our travels to San Diego.
 San Diego brought my first experience of staying in a hostel. We had planned to stay in a hostel for three nights, but as soon as we walked in the door we knew we would be staying elsewhere. Being too late to look for a hotel so we checked out the next morning and checked in to the Westinn. It was luxury!!! and also the same price as our hostel. Hosting a roof top pool we knew we had made the right choice! San Diego was very chilled, we walked along the coast, through the city and also visited San Diego zoo.

Next stop was Los Angelos

From LA we boarded the Amtrak to Anaheim, finally after 20 years of watching videos filmed in Disneyland I would finally be able to see the place where it all began for myself.

I left the girls in San Francisco to fly back to Orlando, I had changed my flight a couple of times so that I could stay longer.