Untitled Update :)

I don't feel like making up a title...

I know this is getting pretty repetitive, but I went to the beach again.  I don't know why, but somehow I didn't figure that on a beautiful sunny day, a resort beach would be packed with people. Well, it was.

See?  Lots of people.  Yeah, I was on the pier when I took that picture.  Apparently my blog needs more pictures on it though.  What else do I have...

Yay, random pictures!  Actually I took that picture to send to my little sister, but whatever.  It's... a fountain, the casino and giant movie theater in the background.  Nothing too exciting.  I think it'd be more exciting in the dark. It gets dark too late right now though, I don't want to be there at midnight alone.

I don't really like walking around taking pictures. Makes me feel like a tourist. I mean, maybe I am a tourist right now but I still don't like to feel like one.

That's a picture off the same pier (obviously a little further out though) on that day that it was super windy and rainy. With my ice cream. I was teasing my sister. I know, I'm not very nice.

Anyway, done with pictures. I got an email from the international office at the school last week about my immigration papers. I guess they didn't like the picture that I sent in with it, they wanted me to go take a new picture in Dutch passport picture standard, which I did, and then I dropped by the office with it. While I was there, they told me my immigration papers have already been approved, they're just waiting on a new picture. That made me so happy!  I don't know why, but I had been irrationally afraid that they would deny me and I'd have to go home.  I don't want to go home. I like it here. I love it here.

So I guess when I get the stuff back for that, I should probably make sure I complete it all. I was a bad person, I did not send in the required papers for my residence permit and stuff in France.  Yes, maybe that's why I was worried about the Dutch immigration stuff. They wanted a photocopy of every page in my passport, which means that they could have looked at my French visa and decided to see if I followed through with everything. I never sent in the "once you arrive" paperwork in France because I missed the deadline to send it in with the group, and I was too lazy to go to the post office and mail it myself. Ehh, French post offices are intimidating.  Nobody even received their residence permits before we left anyway. (I know. That's no excuse. Shame on me.)

Then Mom tells me I got some paperwork from the European Studies program people in the mail.  That's got me worried and excited, too.  Worried because she said it has to be mailed back within two weeks, and that they provided a business envelope with which to mail it back.  Well she can scan and email all the stuff, sure, but I still don't have that envelope.  The program office is closed for the summer, one of the ladies is on maternity leave and her replacement is on vacation until August 16th.  Otherwise I could just take the paperwork to them in person.  I might go ask the international office about it...  Still, this paperwork is stuff about language choice and introduction days and registration and I'm so excited for school to start!  I've got about a month. Classes don't start until the middle of September but these registration/introduction days start at the end of August.

I think I will make macaroni for dinner. With mushrooms. Yep, sounds good.