Five Weeks... Maybe (lets start at the beginning)

I may have told you once or twice before, that I am leaving the country forever and moving to Canada. Why Canada? well it snows at christmas and they speak french, well a lot of them do, and I'm into that. 

However plans went astray last October when I went along as emotional support to a cultural exchange meeting for people interested in being an Au Pair in America. Thus new plans were developed. 

Being saturated in american culture most of my life from Sesame Street to Gilmore Girls and Meg Cabot books, I have long desired to be a part of this fabled American dream. Ah America, land of "Pop Tarts" and "Dr Pepper". *sigh* 

And so a new goal had emerged in my life, new budgets were drawn up, new purchases ruining those budgets started to revolve around my new life in America, and I started distancing myself from things that kept me tied to my life in Australia. My Choice was made, and the code name for this mission was born APUSAA09 which stands for Au Pair USA April 09, well it did, until April came and went and I knew there was no way I could have gone that soon, and the A now stood for a more realistic, but cutting it fine August. 

"Cutting it fine" because August is the very latest I can go, due to Visa restrictions, I need to be in the country before my 27th birthday.. eeek!

So after much procrastination, I finally filled out my application, and on March 18th headed into Sydney with friends Charlotte and Karlie to attend the matching week meeting to take advantage of some pretty major savings being offered, and it was done, my dreams were now out of my hands and into the hands of the matching team in Boston, and the subsequent host family matches.

Finally after weeks of panicked waiting, for prospective host families who don't respect my tight schedule to at the very least call me, I have received an email, a phone call, several more emails, including a link to the last few years of family photos. I think after all that I have reason to be hopeful of this one. The family seems perfect for me, however sad that if it weren't for some tragic circumstances there most likely would be no need for an Au Pair. 

Well thats it for now, Im off to work to get the funding to make this all happen.