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Agh! I just sent an email to my local Rotary club chair person about the Youth Exchange program. I'm so nervous!! @_@
I wish I'd asked around about different exchange programs before, instead of just searching myself. But if I'd done that, I probably also would have noticed the scholarship I mentioned before. I finally got around to asking on a lj comm about stuff, and I was referred to the Cultures Shocked forums. It's a great active site with tons of other people who have gone or want to go on exchanges. It's great! Through it, I found out about Rotary. Rotary usually covers most of the cost, unlike other programs that cost soooo freaking much. And they allow up to age 19. I don't know if that means departure age, or age while there. I hope the latter, otherwise I won't be able to do it! D:
Ah well, God obviously had an enormously good reason to blind me to these things until now, so I'll just trust Him to get me into whatever one I'm supposed to go to. And I can kind of understand why, too. As I've mentioned before, I was basically socially retarded until a couple of years ago. Even just over the course of this summer I've learned so much more about friends and relationships and people. And myself, too. If I'd tried to go before, I think I would have just emberrased myself, not to mention wasted an amazing opportunity by not making as many friends as I could have.
Also, I was just so stressed by my home life, even though I didn't know it. I thought I was fine, and that I just liked isolating myself, and that it was just my ADDness or whatever that made me just sit in my room and basically just space out and do nothing all day. I've wasted basically my whole life, but mostly these past four years, just blocking it all out. But now I'm actually trying to be an active participant in my own life. It's really hard, and feels even more stressful when I actually try to focus on rl for any length of time, but it's definitely worth it. Especially if I manage to go on an exchange. :]
That reminds me- I've always thought tattoos were intersting and could be cool if they had meaning, but I've always thought that I wouldn't get one myself, because I get sick of things reeeeeeeally easily, even stuff I really really like. But my friends have been talking about getting them a lot lately, and that's naturally gotten me brainstorming. I thought of the perfect one for me the other day!
"Time waits for no one..." It'll probably be small, and somewhere unnoticable. It's really perfect, though, because it's a quote from one of my favorite movies, as well as a great reminder to myself to get off my lazy ass and do stuff. XD I currently have it written in three spots on my body, to motivate me. It's worked wonders so far! Now I just need to determine where the heck to put it....
I wish I'd asked around about different exchange programs before, instead of just searching myself. But if I'd done that, I probably also would have noticed the scholarship I mentioned before. I finally got around to asking on a lj comm about stuff, and I was referred to the Cultures Shocked forums. It's a great active site with tons of other people who have gone or want to go on exchanges. It's great! Through it, I found out about Rotary. Rotary usually covers most of the cost, unlike other programs that cost soooo freaking much. And they allow up to age 19. I don't know if that means departure age, or age while there. I hope the latter, otherwise I won't be able to do it! D:
Ah well, God obviously had an enormously good reason to blind me to these things until now, so I'll just trust Him to get me into whatever one I'm supposed to go to. And I can kind of understand why, too. As I've mentioned before, I was basically socially retarded until a couple of years ago. Even just over the course of this summer I've learned so much more about friends and relationships and people. And myself, too. If I'd tried to go before, I think I would have just emberrased myself, not to mention wasted an amazing opportunity by not making as many friends as I could have.
Also, I was just so stressed by my home life, even though I didn't know it. I thought I was fine, and that I just liked isolating myself, and that it was just my ADDness or whatever that made me just sit in my room and basically just space out and do nothing all day. I've wasted basically my whole life, but mostly these past four years, just blocking it all out. But now I'm actually trying to be an active participant in my own life. It's really hard, and feels even more stressful when I actually try to focus on rl for any length of time, but it's definitely worth it. Especially if I manage to go on an exchange. :]
That reminds me- I've always thought tattoos were intersting and could be cool if they had meaning, but I've always thought that I wouldn't get one myself, because I get sick of things reeeeeeeally easily, even stuff I really really like. But my friends have been talking about getting them a lot lately, and that's naturally gotten me brainstorming. I thought of the perfect one for me the other day!
"Time waits for no one..." It'll probably be small, and somewhere unnoticable. It's really perfect, though, because it's a quote from one of my favorite movies, as well as a great reminder to myself to get off my lazy ass and do stuff. XD I currently have it written in three spots on my body, to motivate me. It's worked wonders so far! Now I just need to determine where the heck to put it....