It's Official - Finally!

It was more than an year ago when I decided I wanted to go study to Australia. During the last couple of months it has seemed, though, that someone has something against to the plans I've been making.

What have been happening is that I applied to my university's exchange place to Melbourne, but got rejected. I had such a strong feeling that I would get the place that the short rejection email got me so upset I ended up crying in the university library in the middle of the day. Well, I didn't let that discourage me but, after sorting out my financing, applied to couple of Australian universities through Kilroy Education. In a short period of time I did get a conditional offer from Griffith University but they required me to do an English proficiency test. Well, all the tests were fully booked. Okay, I can still go to the university in Perth, I tried to clam myself, but in my mind I had already seen myself living (and dancing!) in Brisbane, so I send an email to Griffith asking for an exception for the language test. So finally I got an unconditional offer! The last hindrance in the process came across today when I was trying to transfer the student fee and I realized that the euro's exchange rate had dropped down dramatically. If I just made the transfer couple of days earlier I would have saved hundreds of euros! Damn. Anyway, I am finally on the right way of fulfilling my long-term dream, and actually I have to leave already quite soon since my courses will start in the middle of February!

What will happen to my dancing then? Well, one of the reasons I chose Griffith was that Brisbane is a pretty good place for Zouk dancing and one of my favorite dance teacher couple happen to live there! I haven't yet found out if I could take their classes but that is one big thing in my to-do-list, right after buying the flights and applying for the visa!

Today I had my first bursts of excitement and those came so strong I couldn't help writing something here. Seriously, in just two months I'm going to be dancing on the other side of the world! So, if you want to dance with me before I leave, don't worry: I have the whole January in Finland and I'm not going to be busy at all. I wish nothing but lots and lots of dancing from my last month in Helsinki.