A Big Surprise!
I would just blurt it out, but I feel like telling the story, first.
Just yesterday, after the Olathe City Track Meet, I was being taken home by my grandma. She used to be an ESL teacher, so she’s had quite a big of experience with foreigners, but finds my foreign exchange really interesting. We went to a Burger King and were eating and started talking about it. I explained how I still needed to get my CoE and my visa, and that I need my passport for both of those, and how I hoped it would come soon (though it’s only been 2~3 weeks since we re-sent in the application after getting my Dad’s signature, so my hopes weren’t too high.)
Then we come to today, and because track season is officially over I got to walk home. So on my walk (only 5~10 minutes) I started thinking about exchange, which of course brought me to thoughts about my passport, since ultimately that is what I need to keep moving forward in preparing for my exchange. Because I knew it would come through the mail, I thought: Oh, what the heck. It’s not going to be there, but I’ll check anyway.
So I got home, walked to the mailbox, opened it up and at the bottom of the pile there was a very official looking, cardboard-esque envelope, but it wasn’t very thick. I checked it and, What?, it was addressed to me, but it was flat. Oh, it can’t be my passport, it’s too thin… I continued looking at the envelope while walking up the stairs to my front door, wondering what it could be (and tripping because I was thinking so hard).
I got inside, walked up the split-level stairs in my house and hung my backpack on the top stair rail, went and sat in my mom’s computer chair and began opening up the envelope.
……… It IS my passport… It’s my passport. I got my passport!
I continued to frolic around the house for a few minutes, called my grandma and chattered excitedly, posted on CS, watched a random TV show, and now I’m here posting this.
Isn’t my life interesting? xD
