Friday, September 4, 2009
Just a quick update
So, alot's happened in the past weeks. First, school started on 09-1-09 and i'm officially done with my first week of sophmore year!
I just sent in my short application and we are having a meeting with my Youth Exchange Officer this Saturday.
-Hannah
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
The Beginning .
Hey Everyone, this is a blog to documate my exchange year aborad in 2010-2011. At the moment I want to to go through Rotary, but if i don't get accepted I'm gonna go through AFS or YFU or some other porgram. I am a sophmore in higschool and I want to spend my junior year abroad-hopefully somewhere in europe. At first when I thought about spending a year abroad I only wanted to go to france, but now I realize I just want to go, preferably somewhere in europe but my mind is open to anywhere. I just contacted my local Rotary district (6270-if anyone is interested) and the guy told me to fill out the begining of the application (which is huge by the way) and then said a represetnative would contact me to set up an interveiw. I almost finished filling it out and plan on sending it in sometime this week. So, here is a rough time-line of the whole applcation process:
- October = Club Interviews
- November = District Interviews, $1,150 application fee
- December = Accepted student application sent to Central States
- January = Country assignment announced first orientation session
- March = Second orientation session
- April = Rotary District Conference
- July = Grand Rapids Youth Exchange Conference (pictures)
- August = Eleven month exchange begins
Ok, so i think that's it for now about exchange stuff got to go to a swim meet...
-Hannah