I was at Fully Booked a while ago after shopping at Mango (which was unintentional. I was just SO deprived of shopping and going out that I just HAD to buy something). I came across this book guide about Canada…

All the pictures and all the information that was there made me excited about everything!

The thing that really catches my eyes there was the thought of experiencing SNOW. Since I live in a tropical country, all I experience is sun and rain. I am very much sick of the sun and still loving the rain. So I want to minimize my sun exposure and insert FALL and WINTER somewhere in the middle of it all.

4 days to go. I hope the letter is on its way.

As the day goes by, I get more anxious than ever.

We were at a party last night and everyone has been asking me the same anxious and exciting question: “When do you leave?”. And I reply with one simple and nervous answer: “My visa hasn’t arrived yet.”

5 more days before the 45th day and I grow nervous all the time. My mom and I were talking about the same thing last night at the party and my dad overheard us. He commented: “That again? There’s no question about your visa anymore. Stop talking about it.”

I did mention in my previous post that my dad has been granted a 3 year multiple entry tourist visa to Canada. His reason of going there was to accompany me. He had all the right reasons not to worry about my visa anymore cause if they gave him a visa with only that reason, who will he accompany if they didn’t give me one as well, correct?

That might be true, but I am still nervous as hell about everything. I may have been accepted in the school, but what if the country does not accept me…? That’s another problem I have to face all together.

5 more days. I can’t wait…

October of the year 2010 when my life for 2011 – 2012 had been decided. It had been my dream to actually study in another country, live in another country for more than 1 week, and actually mingle with other cultures (other than Filipino – Chinese people).

I had been looking for work in another country even before I graduated from college. I never got a position, or got a call from anyone who wasn’t looking for a home-based job. So, I worked for 9 months before I resigned. A couple of months later, my mom finally agreed to me studying abroad for a year and try my luck if I can land a job. If not, I go home.

October 2010, my dad’s high school friend went home from Canada. They were teachers in the said country and knew their way around the system. They gave us advises on how to move on, what to do so that I can apply in the school and program that I wanted to take.

January of 2011, I got my results. I got accepted into the New Media Design and Web Development certificate program of the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, British Columbia. We started filling up our application forms for our visa. My dad was accompanying me to Canada to help me get settled in school and settle the money I will be needing for my studies.

March of 2011, our application forms were picked up by the courier tasked by the Canadian Embassy to pick it up. On the same month, my dad got his tourist visa and I got my medical examination papers. By the end of April, I was done and my results were sent to the embassy.

From April 26th, when they sent my medical results to the embassy, it has been 36 days. I am still waiting for my results and I am hoping, wishing, and wanting a positive result. This has been a life long dream of mine since I set foot on another country when I was 7 and I hope that this is it. That this is my destiny, that I am destined to succeed by taking another course, taking a business course after (anywhere, may it be here or there). I want to prove that I can be successful even though I am not a doctor. Because it seemed like nothing is more successful than being a doctor for this family. I want to show them that I can. That another path can also be successful.

Join me as I count the remaining days of waiting for my visa. I assure you, I am getting very very anxious as the date arrives and as our team in the office grows smaller and smaller each day.