24 days...

So it's official, I'll be interning at the Courtauld Institute. I talked to Grandma Joan the other day and she said that she mentioned the institute to a fellow from London and he was quite impressed, so that makes me even more excited. Also, I've been told that the woman who will be overseeing my internship is very nice, so that makes me happy.
I'm still working on getting everything organized but I won't worry until the week before. My visa came in the mail so now it's just details like packing that I have to deal with. Aside from that I've also been perusing the concerts that are going on in London while I'm there. I have a list of about 30 that I would like to go to, but that will probably be a bit much. I did already buy tickets to two concerts, Laura Marling, which if it works out my mom may go with, so that would be very fun. The other concert is Black Kids. I'm pretty excited about that one as well. The concert is at the Astoria, which is a pretty famous and historic venue, but it's being torn down late this year because of something to do with the tube and preparing for the 2012 Olympics, so I'm glad that I'll get to go there before it's gone.
Well, that's all for now.

p.s. I just want to say thanks for the comments that people have left, I always get so excited when I have new ones to read so please feel free to comment a lot, and I'm sure there will be more to comment on once I'm actually there.

It's Getting Close

Just thought I'd write a little update about what's going on. I recently applied for my visa, which asked a lot of redundant questions. Then I had to go down to Milwaukee for my biometrics appointment. I had no idea what to expect but I ended up needing to go to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and get my fingerprints picture taken, I kind of felt like a criminal. Weird. That day I also found out that I may have an internship placement in London. It's not for sure yet but I possibly might be placed in the Photo Survey Department at the Courtauld Institute of Art. There's a link to their site at the bottom. I'm not sure what I'd be doing there but I think it'd be interesting and it's a very central location within the city, so it could be interesting, but we'll see if that pans out.
Aside from getting all of my paperwork in order I'm starting to think of packing and all of that fun stuff. I'm not to worried about it yet, but the time is passing by pretty quickly. I actually only have 36 days until I leave, so within a week or two it'll hit me that I'm really going back and I'll think of all that I have to do.
That's all I've got for now but I'll keep you updated when I find out for sure about my internship placement and all of that fun.

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html