Unrequited Disappointment

Exciting week! Tuesday Connie (my AFS connection - great gal) called and said that through AFX (the scholarship) I won $1000 toward my trip! W00t! Kinda. Sra. Vander Wilt says it's a great big honking deal because
1) I could have won nothing
2) No one from Jefferson (or quite possibly Iowa) has ever won this scholarship.

To which I respond
1) I could have won $10,000
2) I think the big cities are cheating to get so many winners. Those intercity schools aren't THAT great!

And on Friday Connie called and said that AFS Germany accepted my application! That's great news - now I have to wait for a family to pick me. My profile picture was pretty cute, so it shouldn't take long.

Whew!

The scholarship application is now officially someone else's responsibility. All I do now is sit around waiting (and learning German) until March, when the scholarship winners are announced! Hopefully, I'll also earn some money in the meantime. Just in case.

Everyone else is wrapping it up....

All righty then! The medical forms are filled out, the transcript is filled in. The parent's statement is almost done, all the fine print is signed. Sis. Liechty is keepin' right along, and Sra. van der Meer just needs to print it out. Everything is done!

Except, of course, the part where I write a bunch of essays and whatnot.

Good job, team! 'cept for me. At least I can't blame anyone else if I don't get it in on time.

Kechu always tells me about how weird it is in a different country, and Hannes loves to tell me about how controlling and annoying AFS can be. I swear, I'm getting more excited by the day. And as soon as I finish my last semester test, I am buckling down and getting those essays done!

Go Team!