A Gap Year | A quick update

Hello everyone!
Today, I will be giving you all a very quick update on my Australia adventure. It will be a quick (and hopefully short) update because I want to get another post up along with this one.

So, here we go!
I got an email yesterday (Wednesday 15th). I was just telling Rosa, who is flying with me to Dubai, that I didn't have a host family yet. Just as I said this, my iPod screen lid up, and there was an email from AFS. The email was directed to the person I have been contacting about my visa, saying 'Attached is the AASES form for Danielle'. The form can only be sent to the embassy if there is a host family. I started freaking out, trying to open the attachment as fast as possible (and making the dumbest mistakes while doing so).

When I opened the attachment, I was met with the names and the address of my host family! I have a host family!! I am so happy that AFS was able to find one, because my departure date is coming closer and closer and I was getting worried that I might not be able to fly out on the set date.

I don't know much about them yet, though. They are still filling in the application papers, and when they have completed the application, I will get a profile with pictures and more information about them :) I did do a Google search on the address and my school, and it's not far from each other. The school has different programs, and has a great park attached to it! Students attending my school wear uniforms, with colours blue and white. This may seem normal to some of you, but in The Netherlands nobody wears a uniform to school. Also, my house is not very far from the beach and I will be very close to the city centre of Perth. (Note: this is what I found with Google Maps, so distances might be longer and further apart)

I am so extremely happy that I will have people that will take care of me and that I am (if the visa is on time) able to leave on the 5th of February.

A is my home address, B is my school address

Love, Danielle

Update: I got my host parents' profile sent to me yesterday! They seem really nice people, have no children but they do have two smaller doggies :) I am crossing off my lists (as I always do) and whilst pre-packing my stuff today I found myself being super excited. The weird thing is that when my dad called the office yesterday, he was told that they had already found them in November! Witch was a month or two after I had applied! Not that great that they forgot to tell me, could have saved me a lot of stress, but in the end I'm still breathing ;)

Like I said, I am super excited, and it makes it as really real. Not having a host family yet was difficult, not knowing if I could go. But knowing that I will be taken care of, makes me feel really calm. Scary and a little bit anxious? Yes. All the 'what ifs?' are going around in my head all day now. But I have come this far, last year has been the most eventful year in my life so far, so I think I will manage this year just fine.