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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Beautiful Beginning Towards a Bright Future

Last month was quite stressful, since I needed to get a copy of my bank statement to send down to Wyotech along with my high school diploma in order to get my application started. It took me about a week in August due the fact the exact criteria the statement had to meet my bank had trouble providing. I only really got the statement I needed on August the 9th when I finally spoke to a teller who knew exactly what I needed and made a custom statement. I also had a mixup with my diploma which was simply my fault, I send them the proper one on the 14th which got the rest of the application finally rollin'.

Moving along closer to the end of the month I splurged and got myself a antique project car located in Saskatchewan. It is a 1949 Hudson Commodore 6, which luckily is 98% complete and I only need to find a few missing parts. I bought it on the 23rd of August and once I got the shipping figured out, it arrived at home on the 4th of September. I am really looking forward to working on the car and getting it back in working order as a restored classic. The Truck driver was saying on the way over to BC, people were asking him about the car and taking pictures of the Hudson on the back of his trailer and that was when it was in condition #5. More information on classic car condition rating: http://automotivemileposts.com/rating.html
On the 29th of August I also jumped on the chance to acquire a 1941 Hudson Commodore 6. Sure it may seem a lot, but to own these beautiful classic cars means a lot me and makes it so I can prove to my parents and my friends how much I have learnt from going to Wyotech.

***pictures of the cars will be posted at a later date***

The beginning on this month of this month was quite crazy, since on the 6th of September I had booked an appointment to go over to the US consulate to get all my student visa in order. I was lucky though, since after waiting several hours I got up the booth only to find out i could have got it at the border. I was lucky because they did not turn me away there and let me get my visa application finish there.

As of the 17th I took a greyhound down to Sacramento, California; which took 1 day 4 hours and I arrived the following day at 1:55pm. I freshened up and then headed down to Wyotech to meet my admissions rep and get a tour of the college. I also went down again on Thursday and get to meet some of the teachers who might be teaching the program I am in. As of Friday 21th I had my orientation and got my uniform, ID and all my other paperwork figured out.

I am really looking forward to Monday (sept 24th)  and the start of my program, however the only unfortunate thing is.... I have wake up at 4am so I can get down to Wyotech at 5:30am. However the rest of the week, I need to be at Wyotech at 6am, so I can get a little more sleep.