AFS pre-application!!!!!

So I have just completed the first part of the AFS pre-application and paid the non refundable application fee for AFS!!!!! YAY!!!! It will take about three business days for and AFS advisor to send me a full application. Tuesday I am going to meet with my guidance counselor and have the school fill out some other paperwork for YFU. I also have to make appointments with the dentist and doctor to sign papers, but I will wait till I have some of the papers for AFS as well.

I have also applied for the merit-based scholarship with AFS and its possible to find out the results within a few weeks I believe. I am waiting for my teacher to send me back the recommendation sheets I have sent him for both AFS and YFU. I have asked my biology teacher Mr. J. He has emailed me back and told me he will completing the sheets tomorrow seeing as it is a little past 10pm.

I am also looking for photos to send in with my YFU application. Last night I started my host family letter which needs to be over 500 words and I already have 529. I don't want to write a lot but I want to write enough so they know a great deal about me so I am paired with a wonderful host family. I just don't want to write to much and have it be to long and tell them everything because they would know all about me and that would be boring. Well I am a fun and interesting person so I don't think that would happen. When I was first reading about the host family letter I thought, "Wow! 500 words that's a lot!" but really you are just talking about yourself and its really easy, cause who knows you better than you??