A few nights ago, after finishing work for the night and closing up the store I looked at my phone to check the time. Instead, I was met with a message from one of my good friends, Bec, who studies spanish with me at UTS and who also happens to be travelling to Spain next year. It read:
“Leer tu correo electrónico ahora!”
I realised I stopped breathing. This was it. This is what we’d been waiting for since I can’t even remember when. We were supposed to receive an email during our semester break informing us of where we would be attending university next year but for what I believe to be unsubstantial reasons, this crucial announcement had been pushed back and back.. and back. So clearly, Bec’s message could only imply one thing. I tried getting into my inbox as fast as I could (of course, it being the only time I consecutively mistype my password three times) whilst walking at super-human pace toward my bus stop (I presume out of excitement). I see the email. I disregarded everything except for one line.
“I can confirm that students who nominated the following locations as their first preferences will be placed at their preferred locations: Carlos III (Madrid)…”
I freaked. OUT.
I called Bec straight away and the whole conversation pretty much consisted of countless “OMG’s” and “I’M FREAKING OUT’s”. You should have seen me frantically walking across Pyrmont bridge at 9:30pm on a Friday night. There were quite a few on-lookers. Once that conversation was over, I freaked out again and called my best friend, Emilie. And then again when I called Michaela, my now official travel buddy – she’s going to Madrid with me! (AAAHHH!)
So there you have it!
As of January 2015, I will officially be a student of La Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España!
Til my next post,
Besos para ti xx
angelica la viajera 
I’ll be studying in Madrid too! But at Complutense 🙂 …and also started my own travel blog haha
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Oh really! That’s great! It’s only about 25 mins away from UC3M 🙂 When are you going to be studying there?
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I’m already in Europe but I’ll arrive in Madrid this Saturday 🙂 I’ll be there for the year so we will be there at the same time
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I’m so excited for you! Are you going to be renting an apartment in the city or does your uni have student residence? Maybe we can meet up when I eventually start my own exchange! 🙂
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3 weeks with the program is required with a family then I’ll be looking for an apartment. Yeah we definitely should that would be awesome 🙂
You arrive January ?
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Oh that’s so cool! I think I’ll be using Airbnb for the first week or so until I find my own apartment. Add me on FB so we can talk! 🙂
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