Un petit problème...

...qui, en fait, est assez grand.

Well, okay I'll actually get to that later. First of all, let me start by saying that I'm leaving in a week. I fly to NYC at some ungodly hour next Wednesday morning, and then hang out in JFK before hopping on my flight to the DR. I've got all my housing info, and I've found out about my fam. I'm not going to share too much right now, because I don't know how comfortable they'd feel with that. Call me paranoid, whatever.

I live literally 2 minutes from the university, which is awesome, because I'm always running late. I still don't know anything about my classes... or when classes actually start. I also haven't really started packing.



I also need to start really reviewing for my Spanish placement exam. I'm currently watching Juno in Spanish, which I'm telling myself actually counts as practice.

Okay well that's it for the DR, but yesterday I realized a possible HUGE problem with my study abroad-ing in France. Let me break it down.

I need a visa to study for more than 3 months in France

I can't apply for this visa until I've been accepted into my French program

I won't be accepted until sometime this fall, while I'm in the DR
and, here's the kicker,

I almost most most most almost definitely need to apply for my visa in the United States <---problem

So what are my options? Well, right now I'm been calling and trying to contact pretty much everyone in the country who might have an idea of how to go about this. One my my friends has an In with a guy who works for the consulate, and I left him a message today, so I'm hoping he'll call me back tomorrow... if not, I will continue to spam his voicemail box (or is it voice mailbox? I never really knew). I've also left many half-in-hysterics messages to my university's study abroad office, CIEE (the company doing my France program) and ISA (the company doing my DR program).

So I'm really really really hoping I figure this out before I leave, or at least have a better idea of what I need to do, as to prevent myself from going absolutely insane. But for this moment in time, I'm just going to continue enjoying two of my favorite things- Ellen Page, and movies in different languages.