the wait is over... (or "go look at my wordpress blog")

Well, no, it's just beginning, isn't it? But I found out on Wednesday night that I got the CBYX scholarship, and I've decided to accept it. My mom has asked me like twenty times if it's really what I want to do, I'm guessing mostly because she was secretly hoping that she'd be able to visit me in Turkey at the end of next year. I'm surprised that she's not jumping for joy at my uncharacteristic decisiveness, but whatever! I'm going to Germany!

Anyway, after months of being up in the air, including a full month of extra waiting after we were supposed hear, it feels wonderful to have a plan. It's quite frustrating when all of your friends have heard back from their colleges and people ask you where you're planning to go and all you can give them is a nebulous "...another country?" I've found over the past two days that they respond much more positively to "Germany!"

Of course, there's still a lot that I don't know, but here's what I do:

• I will need to get myself to Washington, D.C. somehow sometime during the first week of September.
• After about three days there, the other AFSers and myself will board a plane to Germany.
• We will return to Washington, D.C. around mid-July 2011.

Wow! I don't know how long it will be until I find out the specifics about my host family placement or any of that, but the waiting is going to be a lot more cheerful this time around.

Now I just have to hope that this darn volcano thing clears up before September! (yes, that was facetious. I hope. hahaha)

(via Wordpress: We Had Longer Ways to Go, 16 April 2010.)

I've been posting a bit more consistently over there. I know it's super-convenient to follow people on Blogspot, which is why I've been copying things, but I discovered the world of RSS feeds a few months ago (don't laugh at my slowness) and I will never go back. You should try it sometime.