Oooohhhgh. It's been five weeks. Five weeks and a day since I clicked "submit" on my full application. Five weeks exactly since I had my interview with my local AFS volunteers. Five weeks, and no official word of acceptance... yet!
They said it would take 4-6 weeks to be accepted. (Then again, I've talked to some other people who told me that... well... it can end up being more like 6-8 weeks!)
I know my papers have been sent off to AFS Argentina, so I guess that means I was accepted to AFS-USA... But, ohh, I would love to get the official "you're in!"
Not that knowing that will make much of a difference. I mean, saying "I'm going to Argentina," is like saying "I'm going to Europe" - there's such a vast range of landscapes. The true excitement will come with getting my host family in May or June so that I know if I'll be shivering in Esquel or sweating in Jujuy.
For now, I'm content with chatting it up with my Cultures-shocked buddies and the people I've met on Facebook. I've met a few people who I'll meet in Miami or Buenos Aires in July, and I've met some people who are leaving in just a few days.
Overall, I'm just... waiting. I bought a gigantic Spanish-English dictionary to help me with my homework when I'm there (for all of you wondering how I'm going to comprehend anything!). I got the Exchange Student Survival Kit so that I can hope to be prepared for this... er, daunting adventure. I checked out a stack of about fifteen books on Argentina from the library, and I'm attempting to boost my espanol.
I'm going to breathe a giant sigh of relief when I get the official "you're accepted" phone call/email. I will no longer have to say, "Well, I may or may not be living with strangers next year. I may or may not be going to a school in a foreign country where I don't understand anything. I may or may not be stepping onto a plane in July, waving goodbye to the only home I've ever known... You see, I might just be taking US history in California this time next year... Or I might be struggling with Argentine literature... Aahh well it's a tossup."
Not really a tossup.
Still...! :)
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Oooh... is the exchange student survival kit good?
ReplyDeleteI haven't really looked through it that much, but it seems like it's going to be pretty helpful! I think it will be more of a comforting thing to me than a real source of advice, though... CS is advising enough :)
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