As you can tell from my title my family and I have been approved to host!!!!!!! Her name is Khrystyna and she is from Ukraine! I am really excited and can't wait till she comes. She will be staying with us for the entire school year so August to June I believe. I'm not sure when she is arriving yet, but I'm thinking some time in August. Khrystyna is a FLEX scholarship winner and is going to be like a mini ambassador here in America!! I have emailed her about two days ago, but nothing yet :( that's alright, I wouldn't be checking my email everyday to hear if I got a host family getting so close to the program. I am working on my ASSE full application and writing an essay for a scholarship with them. Really the main question is for every question with all the applications I have done and this essay is "Why do you want to be an exchange student." Which actually is a really easy question because if I think back on when I started thinking about this wonderful/crazy (in a good way) idea I had to ask myself that. Then it was harder because I wasn't to sure, but now this is all I really want.
On Wednesday evening I called into an AFS webinar about fund raising and it was king of interesting. I got some new ideas about how to raise all this money. My parents told me that I am going to half to come up with about half the cost so that's around $3,500-$5,000 and if you remember I wanted to fund raise $5,000 in the first place and so far I have around maybe $500 which is a start....
I have been selling things on EBay and I'm going to have a yard sale next month and in 3 days I turn 16!!!!!! so I can get a job :/ All I know is that I need to get thinking, planing and finish my application so I can get accepted and start looking for some company sponsors or something. Well I do have about 12 more months till I leave for my exchange, hopefully that will be enough time.
I can not wait to hear back from Khrystyna, hopefully it will be very soon!!!
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