Accepted, Part 1

I got home today after a week of checking and reckecking my email for that USA acceptance letter to find a large-ish envelope on the table... My first acceptance! I'm officially accepted by AFS USA. My application is off to Chile. It's all in other people's hands now (eek). Hopefully it won't be but another month or two before I find out whether Chile wants me, and what family I'll be with if it does. Yay!

I haven't quite hit that "panic point" yet - I'm not sure that this has all worn in yet at all. I'm so ready for something to happen. It's all a waiting game now.

However, there's one issue unresolved thus far. My interview was apparently not enough - for a semester program you have to interview in your house (which I guess my rep and I were both unaware of!). So that'll be up soon. It's going to have to wait for Spring Break, though! Off to San Francisco!

Here's a note about what's happened before the blog appeared. I'm throwing this in because I've been looking at other future and present AFSer's blogs and I know how nice it is to know every peice of information.

I first got the preliminary application two years ago. AFS sent me the full application, which I dawdled over (knowing I wasn't going anywhere any time soon). I pulled myself together last October and finished pretty much the whole thing (sans medical stuff and transcript). When I spoke to my advisor soon thereafter, I was horrified to hear that I would have to redo everything online. I did it, though. Slowly, over a course of three months, I redid everything, got my passport, and attended an interview. I got it all turned in about a week and a half ago except the incomplete interview, and here we go!