Meeting with the Consulate

i know some of you have already gone to meet the consulate, so i just thought i'd ask your opinion. my mum thinks that i should dress up and wear like a dress because we're meeting someone who's highly respected. But i dont want to go dressed up all formal like and turn up and there are people there all dressed casual lol. and i love dresses but i dont want to look like i'm going overboard or sucking up or anything like that. SO lo is there a dress code? l what did u guys wear / wat do u plan on wearing!? lol

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Hey Bec, I just went casual, as did pretty much everyone. I wore jeans, a singlet and a fitted jacket - just be neat casual. Even all the guys who had their interviews that day were just in Jeans and a T-Shirt. Not dress pants and collared shirts or anything.
You dont really meet someone 'highly respected', basically just Senior Admin people, thats all :-)

thats what i thought lol my mum's a little paranoid haha. thanks!

i wore wat i wore to work lol
how come u havent been to the consulate yet bec?

becaue they took their sweet time getting back to me haha nah they had like heaps of ppl to get through and i wasnt accepted into the program till feb so i was down the list a bit. oh well its almost here! Oh lol and so not on topic (which is wat we like right?) haha

I brought my backpack today! it's backpack on wheels AND a duffle bag and is 60 litres. which i thought was good but it looks so tiny haha i'll have to roll all my stuff up. It cost $188 (and that was with a discount!) plus name tags. the tsa locks cost $11 bucks each there and i needed like 10 of htem lol so i was like i'll look around, AND THERE WAS NONE! kmart- none, target- none, big w- none, other bag stores- none, freaking sunshine coast has nada lol. soooo might have to fork out the money...kinda sucks. are u guys getting a hide-away money belt to put passport and stuff in?

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I'm not getting a money belt Bec as I kinda wanna blend in with the locals, rather than stick out as an Aussie haha!!!

But that's awesome news about your backpack, but unawesome news about the TSA Locks! I got two for $20, but I only really needed two lol! Why do you need 10??

I got given a money belt from a friend to wear but Im not going to use it. Im a small person and I wear relatively tight clothes - the money belt just SCREAMS outs 'Hey! Im a tourist with money on me!". Its shocking... really obvious.

hahahahahaha hell no to money belt do i want to look fatter than i already am?!?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

i have a travel wallet but won't stick all of my stuff in that only my passport and tix n shiz niz

i'll prob buy another wallet to take with me!

btw bec nice news about the bag! i bought a 92L one lol so mine sounds much larger then urs! lol

and also dont u think they would of finishd the visas by now since some people dont really have much time left!

wens ur appointment bec?

My friend Courts (from the CCUSA forum) has her appointment in Sydney on the 1st May and she flies out the same day as me, the 21st. Not leaving much time...

omg u for real!
oh yeh carla we get to meet courts aswell (well i do) woot woot i'm hell excited!

ROFL We totally side tracked!!

I have a travel wallet too and then I'm just going to bring my regular wallet too

Ive met Courtney Darl, shes so lovely. A shorty with dreadlocks. I cant wait to spend more time with her in America. We're on the same 6 hour flight from LA to North Carolina after orientation...

thats a good thing!
yeh i memba u saying u guys caught up to go to ur visa meeting together!
its gr8 to find someone before ya leave to chat to on the plane and get excited about orientation and camp!

Heck yes it surely is!!!

penl have u found ne1?

Yeah a girl called Amanda is going to my camp and doing exactly what I'm doing and she is from Brisbane which is REALLY sweet!!! So yeah we're pretty much doing everything together, except the domestic flight in America is like an hour different.

yeh rachels flying to arizona aswell but hers is like 3 hrs after mine and sofies

Oh trueee! Is she at the same camp as you?

nah shes not dats y i wana know where her camp is cos thats really weird hey!
shes going to camp the same day as me and everything!

Lol....that is pretty weird!! Maybe it's near your camp and you two like will meet up lol!!

hahaha yeh that'd b funny cos how many camps are in arizona?
like i know theres 1000's of camps around america but are there really? lol

Lol there really are!! I've been looking at camps just in Connecticut! There are 100's! It's a freaking religion summer camp is lol!!

How cool would it be to set up and run a Summer Camp in Australia??
That'd be my dream.

Lol I'd just like to say that Carla that was rather random lol!!

But so true!!

hahah but it wouldn't be like the american ones!
the longest holdiays we get is 6 weeks and normally after 6 weeks im ready to go back to school!
there are some camps in oz but not great ones