Last tuesday I submitted my applications for Seattle and Warwick, hopefully I'll be selected for Seattle. Anyhow, I'm fairly confident that I will be selected for one of those two and won't loose out completly in the exchange trip application game.

I think that the Seattle exchange programme doesn't have quite as many applications as the ERASMUS ones, so hopefully I can expect a positive e-mail in the first or so week of february, as the application process finishes on January 31st 2008.

If I get selected I need to get a J1 visa for the United States, book flights, probably with British Airways via London (which is good as I'll be able to check out the new Terminal in Heathrow), agree with LMU officials what courses I'll take (so I get the maximum of 14 Credit Points) and so on. :-)

I think I'd also like to buy a new camera for Seattle, to get the best possible pics from the trip. A triband cellphone would be good too, so I can actually phone people in the USA.

Just in case you're wondering who I am, I'm a German/British student who is currently studying at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. I'm majoring in Economics (Volkswirtschaftslehre) and am currently in my third semester (equivalent to early second year) of my bachelor degree. If I get selected by the relevant authorities I will go to either Seattle in the USA in September 2008 or to Warwick in the UK in October 2008. To be quite honest I'd prefer Seattle over Warwick for the simple reason that I intend to do my masters degree in the United Kingdom, so Seattle represents a good opportunity for me to have a look at the US before settling in in Europe.

Anyway, it's now early January 2008, so I'll update this regularly and hopefully put it permanently online when I've been selected for Seattle. :-)

Even with websites such as www.blogger.de, it isn't that easy, though I'm getting there. :-)



This is a test by the way.

Applying to an exchange programme is always a challenging experience, get copies of transcripts, write an essay describing your motivations for the exchange, work on your, probably several years old, curriculum vitae, etc... then have one or two nervous moments and deliver the whole application forms.



But, and I am writing this even before I've got the place, if you've put in a lot of work it can be very rewarding and with that I mean SEATTLE woohoo! :-)

So, fingers crossed that I actually get this place, otherwise I won't bring this blog online.