Hi guys it's Debbie! I am here in my kitchen, I'm having some breakfast. I have
so much stuff to do, mostly related to a thing I haven't told you yet and that is
that in a couple of weeks (actually I think it's exactly two weeks from today)
I will be going to the United States. And I'm not going just on a simple holiday
but I actually have a visa to stay there and work there. It's like an exchange
visitor visa, so it's mostly issued to people who are for example University
students which have to do an internship or high school students
which are doing a year abroad or in my case... people who are going to work as an
au pair. So yeah, that's where I'm going in two weeks.
My boyfriend is also doing this experience, he actually left yesterday. I
miss him so much but I'm going to see him very soon. When
you're going to live abroad there is a lot of paperwork, you have to organise so
many things. So if you're planning on going abroad, moving abroad, working
abroad I would recommend organising everything months in advance. I have done
most of this but I still have some things that I have to do. I actually
wrote them down and today I'm going to try and do most of them. I'm just so
excited. I've never actually even been to the United States on holiday, for
example I didn't even have a passport. Actually the majority of people in Italy
don't even have a passport because we can just travel in Europe on our ID card.
So yeah, so it's just so many different things so I really really wanted to
share this journey with you.
Now I was filling out these forms... And basically I don't know how to call them
in English. Even when speaking with my mum in English, we just call them "bollettino".
Who knows how you say that in English? Does anybody know? They're just
basically the simple sheets to pay things in the bank or at the post
office. No idea! So I'm going to fill these out. Also a thing that often happens
here is that you are not very sure of what you have to pay, where you have to
pay it, what right documentation you may need...
So now I was filling out the forms for my international driver's license and they
actually gave me "Read this. This is what you have to take".
One of the first places we have to go to is one of those stationery shops where they photocopy
and scan all your documents and they can put them on your USB stick and
everything. Also look how small this USB stick is. It's literally like not even
one of my fingers. So I've been to the stationery shop and
I had a laugh with the guy about how many times I'm there scanning documents.
And now I'm currently at the gym, the sun's really bright right now it's
really hot outside. I was actually panicking while I was
coming here because I kept on seeing signs, like these huge billboard signs
about the open days at the gym. So I was "No, it's going to be so packed
because it's like free open days!" and so on. But it's not actually too bad out here.
That actually took less than I expected. I'm actually crossing off my duties from the
list as I'm doing them, because I don't want to miss anything out and I've
already realised that I forgot one of my things to do. I forgot one of the things
I had to do which was replace the battery from my watch, I'll probably do
that this afternoon.
So I took those back, got the money....aaah
So I managed to do most of the things I had on my list this morning, I managed to
pay everything, I scanned the documents I needed, I just have to bring in some
documents now, send some emails and go and get my international driver's
license tomorrow and that's about it. I managed to do everything, I'm quite
pleased with myself. I'm out for a walk with my dog.
Also fun fact, we were speaking with my dad the other day, so basically where we are walking now was
like battleground until less than a century ago. There are these two trees and a
gate, and they're actually historic trees and this historic gate, because they're an
important thing that happened during a battle. And I was like "I never knew that"
and they're just there. I'm going to show you them now.
I'm annoyed because I never really bothered to get any information about this, I only discovered
this like last week. Good morning guys, I didn't film much yesterday afternoon
because in the end I didn't do much and specifically I didn't do anything
journey-related, so I didn't think like filming it. But now it is the morning and
I am finally going to get the international driver's license I've been
going on about all day long yesterday. And I'm also going to try and speak to
someone about what I can do with my car, because now that I'm leaving I am
planning on scrapping it and I need to know what paperwork I need also for that.
So I finally have my intentional driver's license, I am so pleased and the
queue was so short, it was so quick. Last time I came with my boyfriend we had to
wait for over two hours. I was expecting it to be like a small card like the normal
driver's license... this is very bulky. I then queued up to get information
about what to do with this car because I am planning on scrapping it.
I drive a Fiat 500 and no, I don't drive one of those cool fancy new Fiat 500s
which are worth a lot of money. What I drive is a 1997 Fiat 500.
It's a very old model, done its job, I've had it for three years now but it is very old, I have
fixed it so many times it's just not reliable now. So I came here this morning
to also speak with somebody, but she was just like "No we don't do this, this is all
done through the mechanic" so I'm going to speak later on with my mechanic and
see what we can do about it.
So just got back from the mechanic, I'm here with Erika. Basically my
mechanic also agreed that the car is not in a good condition enough to be sold, he
agreed that the best solution would be to have it scrapped. I'll probably go for
a walk now with Erika because the weather is so good.
Do you want to go for walkies?
This place always looks so familiar...
So I just got a phone call from the mechanic, telling me that I had to take
my Fiat 500 in today instead of tomorrow to be scrapped. So I literally didn't even have time
to say goodbye to it, I wanted to vlog me taking it to be scrapped and
everything... Also I'm not wearing makeup because had to go out of the house to
the mechanic's but just because I was about to start filming a video, one of
the proper review videos.
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