As some of you know, I have been very interested in studying abroad and finally my parents have said yes!! I am going to start applying Friday with AFS and YFU. Within the application you need to list your top three countries, but because I am applying with both AFS and YFU and they have different programs, I had to pick six. With AFS my choices are 1) Italy 2) Portugal 3) Latvia and with YFU my choices are 1) Germany 2) Greece 3) Poland. I know that some of the countries sound really random, but they are not and I have great interest in studying in all of these countries. All of these countries are well over $8,000 and I am going to have to do a lot of fund raising. I will be sending out a general email and having my parents post it up at their jobs letting people know what I am doing, and fund raising ideas I have, and latter in the year I will be able to say which exciting country I will be studying in. I will be keeping up my blog throughout my junior year as well as my year abroad.
I shall list some of my fund raising ideas for you now:
*Creating a blog and having people sponsor me. I will try to create a paypal account where people can sponsor me by donating money. I will also try to show the amount of money I have towards the trip and how much I still need.
*Making an email Newsletter: I will advertise that while I am abroad I will be creating a newsletter and sending it to people who subscribe via email, or US mail. In this newsletter I will talk about events, activities, people, places, the country, the town will be living in and some basic language that I have learned and used. I will send out this newsletter every two weeks or monthly. People will buy subscriptions to the newsletter before I leave so the money will go towards my trip.
*Pre-Orders for homemade food: I will advertise around holidays and random times throughout the year telling people to please support my dream to study abroad by pre-ordering foods that I will cook/bake at home and hand deliver to them.
*Getting a job: hopefully companies will be hiring so I can start working and putting that money away for studying abroad.
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