US life Part: I:Moving to a new existence

During 2007 I studied in the United States. I’m going to write a series of entries about it. First entry is named “Reflections of the US life : Moving to a new existence”
About 2 years ago I started applying to study abroad. I had been waiting that since I started college. I was hard to convince my parents. They have always been very overprotective. I applied to go to Angers in France, but there were just two places in that University and 2 friends with a better GPA than mine got in. I got accepted to Belgium instead. (I’m glad they didn’t accept me. God knows why He does things and He had a very god plan for me) My French wasn’t that good, but anyway I was convinced to go. I was about to fill in the second part of the paper word the Walt Disney College program came to my university to give a presentation about the program. I attended and I fell in love with it. I did the interview and then they asked me what I wanted to take. There was an option of studying in North Carolina first and then going to Disney. I was so confused I didn’t know what to do. I ended up choosing the Greensboro- Disney program for many reasons. Between them was the fact that I have always like the US and that I had been 3 times to Disney and I love it.
I sent in my paper work by mid October 2006 . By then it seemed a very long way until January 2007. But time is treacherous and when you want it to stand still it rushes as if it was on a race against something. I closed my eyes, I opened them and I was packing to go away from home for 1 year. I left the country on January 1st 2007 exactly after the New years party. We drove from the Party to the airport. As soon as I step on the airport an copious sadness invaded me. I am/was one of those persons that are very close to the family. I wasn’t going to see my mom, my dad, my sister nor my brother. I was going to be on my own…. When I saw my mom crying I just couldn’t kept being strong and I started weeping. I was traveling with one of my best friends who was taking the same program as I. We had to arrive there 1 week before the classes started for introduction.

We got to Greensboro in North Carolina on January first around midday. We went to eat to McDonalds (How original, huh?). We went to bed and didn’t wake up until the phone rang and they delivered one of my suitcases and then we woke up the following day when somebody from the university picked us up at the hotel. We got the university. It was huge! Nothing to do with the one I go to. We had applied to an apartment type dorm, but We didn’t get it and stayed in a place called The I-House (International House). I got a room with a British red haired weird boy. I was so nervous in that new life. I remember I would go to bed the first nights and I dreamed that I was still in my home. I would wake up wishing to be back home…I regretted going to study abroad so much. The idea of going back to Mexico crossed my mind….But suddenly everything started looking better….