Fundraising

Yup, tis the season to begin fundraising. I am doing many things to raise money including: sending letters to businesses, selling candies/foods, and having my own little candle party. My mom is helping me a lot with this, and so is others from my family. I am so thankful, because it would be so hard to do alone. I also got most of my application done, I just have to get the medical stuff filled out and tweak my student letter.
Other than that, nothing else has been new. In my history class we have to do this huge portfolio project on a country of our choice, and I chose Spain =]. So that I can learn as much as I can of it, which would be helpful if I get to go there.
Well this is quite a short post, but nothing much to talk about.
Bye, Adios!

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I'm a Spain Hopeful

I officially got accepted into Rotary yesterday!!!!
Very exciting! I was a little bummed about not being able to go to Italy, because even though I could take Italian classes I have none of the language right now.
Butttttttttt........Spain is my first choice now! My official top 3 countries are Spain, Denmark, and Sweden. All of them sound great, but I would really love to go to Spain.
Anyway, I got my application in the mail yesterday as well. It's fairly long I suppose. 15, 20 pages? Around there.
I need to start fund raising. My mom is helping me out a lot =]
I am so excited! It seems like such a long wait from now until August. But then again from the time that I had my first idea of being a foreign exchange student (which was back in May) to now went fairly fast.
I can't believe that in one year from now I'm going to be living in a different country! Ah it's so great!
Haha I tell people about my foreign exchange sometimes because I'm so excited but I try not to talk about it too much, even though I could probably go on and on and on.

I can't wait to find out my country that will be for sure, which might take a while.
But nonetheless, my point here is that I'm uber excited!

Yeah. And tomorrow is Friday, which always makes everything better of course as well as making me more hyper =].

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Hey!

So this is my first post! I am going with Rotary (hopefully!) on foreign exchange for my senior year in high school!!! Which would be the 09-10 year. I don't know which country I'm going to yet, since I'm not that far into the process. My choices are Italy, Spain, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Norway. I really hope I get Italy, but I really like the other countries too!

But I just had my Rotary district interview today and it wasn't that bad at all. I read some about the Rotary interviews on the Culture Shock Forum and I kind of got a little afraid. At my interview there were only 4 students there including myself, and the 4 rotarians that interviewed me were extremely nice.
So I'll post more later, I'm going to mess with the layout and everything of my blog =]


Oh, and I'll actually name my blog to where I'm going when I find out, which might not be for a while, but that's okay!

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