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kaikai

New Hampshire, Cape Cod, New York City and now London.

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Thursday Jul 05, 2012

Jul 5, 2012
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The Good.

Im officially a Royal Institute of British Architects Part One Certified Architect! Thats just a fancy way of saying I have a really fucking hard to do bacholers degree! And if Ive done all the math right (they havent given official totals yet.) I got a 2:1! :] Which to you Americans basically means I got a B average! Which for how fucking impossible it seemed at times I know Im quite proud of!

The end of year Exhibition went off with a bang! Ive never worked so hard for an exhibition and Ive never been so proud of one! Its truly the best one in the show, I dont care about bragging! Were currently looking for another venue to continue the show and were pretty sure its going to be in the shopping centre I studied! Which is truly beyond exciting!

To Celebrate all of this I went to Leefest! Which is this amazing indie rock festival in deep South London (croydon even) There were so many bands there I absofuckinglutely loved, but my friends going didnt know any of them which is always a little disappointing. Still I danced jumped around and sang to some of my favorite tunes! The bands I was most excitd by Slow Club - Summer Camp - The Brownies - We Were Evergreen! I even got Summer Camp to sign a Polaroid I took of them playing!


The Bad.

Ive already told quite a few of you but yes, I am moving out of my current flat and away from Fry. Unfortunately along with taking a serious toll on me the final year of my Part One Architecture degree also took a serious toll on my relationship. Its an awkward and uncertain situation, and were still rolling with the punches a bit with this one so please respect our privacy. <3


And The Ugly.

Yup, this is where it gets ugly, and long winded, as a lot of people have been asking and the story is a lengthy one to repeat, but can first generally be summed up in two words...

Visas Suck.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)


Lets start from the beginning. In Architecture in the UK there is a 3 years bacholers degree, a one year internship, a two years post graduate degree and then a series of work study and tests. When I first moved to the UK the idea was when | was done the bacholers degree I would get what was then known as a post graduate visa where I could get a visa to do my years internship, I would then switch back to a student visa where I would do my part two and go from there, whether at that point I went back to the states to work or stayed in the uk was up to the future to hold.

In April of this they abolished the post graduate visa. And unfortunately one could not apply for this visa till they had graduated of which I did not due to June. So for months Ive been looking for what to do next. Ive gone to my international advisors office, student services, undergraduate office, the dean of architecture, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and the Embassy, getting various answers and routes for months. The RIBA has since cut it all down to this is what other universities in the UK are doing with the new situation, and basically what it comes down to is that the university gives you what is called a CAS number and you extend your student visa for this year out and the diploma unit in one quick blow.

Perfect right? No. My university currently does not want to give me said CAS number. The issue is there has to be a certain level of monitoring from the university during this period. Many universities including the ones the RIBA have asked, are already doing a course in which they monitor your year out helping you fill out the necessary forms. My university has no such course, so they are refusing to give me such a number. Ive been talking to the RIBA about just how much needs to be monitored as they talk directly to the boarder agency, and to the architecture section of my university on how to set up some basic type of monitoring in order to get the officials at the university to give me said CAS number. The architecture department has been quite helpful through this all but there is still a serious uncertainty of if they will go through with it.

So what happens if I dont get a visa you ask? Well fuck if I know thats for sure. I honestly dont even know how Ill afford a plane home, never mind getting set back up in the states. I guess thats the main reason why this all so ugly... I guess all I can ask from you at this point is wishes for the best and things to distract my mind from all this worrying.




This blog was brought to you by my theme song of the moment and by far the best song played at Leefest



and this beautiful set taken in my flat.

Saiylor - What she said



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grayness:
You will always get wishes for the best from me. love
I'll be hoping for more good, less bad, and no ugly for you. Hmmmm, maybe a new spaghetti western is in order?
The Good, The Better & The Beautiful ? One can always hope! biggrin
Jul 6, 2012
arroia:
A courtesy of Google, but I've found it on Etsy. Too bad it's all pretty damn expensive.
Jul 8, 2012

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