Pastport

Hi guys!

I have quite a lot of stuff to tell. You see, I found out that it would be nice to have a passport, in order to get to Australia. So I went to the local government offices to get one. But that turned out to be a little more difficult than I had in mind. The first time I was there, they told me it wasn't necessary for me to have one, because I already have an identity card. It was a new rule, because of the high amount of passport-requests, and of course I went there the first day of this new rule (which I didn't even know about).. Sure, I do have an identity card, but I cannot travel outside Europe with that. So I was being told to get the airplanetickets as some kind of evidence, to show that I was not lying about going to Australia to get my passport quicker. I contacted Travel Active, the organisation who organises the au pair trips and they told me that I can't book a ticket without my passport! How lovely. Luckily, the people from Travel Active are really nice and they offered to call the local government office themselves, so they did. A few minutes later I got an e-mail from them, which said: 'Okay, all set! We have to send you a letter in which we declare that you really need that passport as soon as possible, in order to book tickets.' Why weren't the government people just as nice to me when I was in front of them? Never mind, eventually, after going to the office four times, I finally had the chance to get a new passport, and if everything goes right, I'll have it by the end of next week, thanks a lot Travel Active!

And if that wasn't enough sensation already, I have something else to tell you. My exams are coming up. Not in a few months, not in a few weeks, but in a couple of days. Three days exactly. Next monday I'll be sitting in the gym of our school. Yes, the gym. Ridiculous place to have exams in my opinion. Anyway, I'm a little bit nervous already. My grades are not that bad, I only have one insufficient grade, for mathematics, but still the exams frighten me. I really need to pass, I can't even think about spending another year of my life in a high school. No pressure. At all. Wish me luck!