London time :)

Its been quite a while since my last blog post cos I have now moved home from Uni and have been too busy relaxing haha. This post is just about what happened with going down to London to the embassy to get my Visa :)

So on Wednesday I got up at 5.30am :( to get the train down to London. My appointment wasn't until 11.30am but I wanted to get there in plenty of time and it takes about 3 hours to get to London from where I live anyway. I met a girl called Laura who had her appointment at the same time as me and we headed to the embassy together, we got a bit lost but ended up getting there in the end. After a bit of breakfast we dropped all our electricals off at the pharmacy down the road which cost £3 which isn't too bad. The embassy says not to queue for your appointment more than half an hour before but we decided to just go early anyway to see if they would let us in...and they did :) So after going through security, just like at the airport, they let us into the building.

I then got given a number and was told to wait for this number to be called. So we then went into the waiting room which was very full! My number was called after about half an hour which wasn't too bad and I just had to go up to a desk where a woman took my documents off me and took my fingerprints. She then told me to sit down again and wait for my number to be called again. After hearing stories about being in there for hours and hours I was feeling quite optimistic. The numbers before mine were being called quite slowly but a man kept calling numbers for the J1 visa's, which is the one Im getting so it would be much quicker because there were loads of us. He was calling numbers higher and higher so I was getting ready to be called, but then suddenly the whole of the embassy decided to go on a lunch break between 1pm and 2pm so no one was called in this hour at all, everyone was getting very frustrated!! However at about 10 past 2 my number was finally called so I went to another desk where I had to verify my fingerprints by doing them again, then they man said "thank you, I am going to process your visa today". AND THAT WAS IT! I waited for 3 HOURS just for someone to say that!!! Then I had to queue for another 10 mins to pay for my passport courier fee which was £14.80.

Anyway I then went to get my electicals back then headed to Oxford street to do a bit of shopping :) I then met my mum and sister and went for a nice meal for tea before heading back to Euston to get the train home. My passport should come on Tuesday because of all of the bank holidays this weekend. Nearly done everything I need to do now :)

Only 58 days to gooo!!!!