30 Days!!

Listen people,

You don't even know how excited I am right now. Aside from money problems-which are a constant these days-everything is going great! Stacey bought me two books from Amazon and they are on their way! One of them was one I was about to buy anyways. I was literally online trying to buy it when I realized my Cefcu savings card couldn't used to make online purchases. lol.

Everything is moving right along. I got an email from the RMIT Village about where I would be staying. They couldn't give me a room number, but they did tell me I was in a 2-bed studio with an Australian. Unknown Roommate: Take 2. Let just hope we can get along this time. And...I HAVE A BALCONY! Well, I'm pretty sure anyways. The website says that most of the 2 bedroom studios have them. And wouldn't they want to make a good impression? haha.

Also, my grandpa is FOR SURE coming to visit me!!! I can't wait to share everything I have learned and my new city with him! It has been so long since I was on a vacation, and with family coming to see me it will feel more like one. I haven't heard about whether Uncle Daren isstill considering it. I know he has got alot of mouths to feed, and tickets aren't cheap, by any means. I wish my mom could come, but I guess she has used all her vacation days and the only ones left she is using when she goes to Sturgis. Oh well, one out of two ain't bad. (P.S. I HATE the word ain't. I only used it because it would have messed the expression up if I hadn't.)

So I am kind of freaking out about all of this money. It is just such bad timing. I owe the balance on my Australearn account by June 15th ($4,048.00) I am going to be about $800.00 short. I blame this on the financial aid at Southern. If they would approve my financial aid, I wouldn't owe anything. Also, they are putting my housing on there, so then I have another 30 days to pay THAT balance or RMIT Village won't hold my room. I have to wait for my parent plus loan to be approved so I know how much I have to come up with. Hopefully, my housing will be billed as housing without meals, $5,880.00, and my other financial aid will be approved by then and I won't have to pay anything....but I doubt it. No one seems to have their shit together except my coodinator, Jalyssa. Thank god for her, even though 9 times out of 10 the poor girl is the bearer of bad news.

I am looking at cell phones and cell phone plans and I'm thinking about going with a company called Global Gossip. I can send texts anywhere in the world for .15 and I receive free incoming calls and texts. So, basically, whoever calls me will be paying an arm and a leg, but it wil be freeeee for meee! =) Which is what really matters! lmao.

I hope that I have money to get a season or two of a tv show to keep me occupied on the flights and in airports. I calculated how much time I will spend in a plane from Chicago to Melbourne and I will have been flying for 21 hours and 45 minutes! That is really going to suck. Just the flight from LA to Brisbane is 13 hours and 50 minutes. The weird thing is that because of the time zones I will leave LA at 11:30 p.m. July 10th and arrive in Brisbane at 6:20 a.m. on July 12th! Crazy. It looks like I will have actually been flying for 30 hours and 50 minutes, but nope. Time zones are tricky things.

Okay well I had better get back to work and make some money! Love you!