I'm Thankful For...

Hello(:

I just wanted to say how thankful I am for everything. My great friends, AFS, my family's support, all the people that I have started talking to through AFS, everything! I don't know how this all seems to be working out (even though I haven't quite been accepted yet), but I am thankful, happy, glad, giddy even, that it seem like it is going to happen!

Time has become a constant motion, and when I say this I mean that I know that it has always been a constant motion, but now it actually feels like it. I feel like every day is slipping by, and today I realized that HOLY CRAP, it is already Thanksgiving. Since when is it even November? Heck, I don't even remember celebrating Halloween, mostly because I didn't, but that is irrelevant. I don't remember specific days anymore, and time seems to be going by me so fast.

And then boom, I realized that next year, if everything goes as hoped, I won't be here, at my cabin (A tradition to come down here for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter) in Boulder, Utah, and I will not be eating turkey dinner with my family and friends who are here every year. I will be somewhere else, somewhere that right at this moment, I don't even know about. And that place will be my home. It is so weird to think about. Weird, but amazing.

I know that this post was just me kind of writing out all my thoughts, but I needed to get it down(: By the way, if everything goes as planned, I have a little over 9 months. Which is kind of crazy.

Arrivederci-
Rachael 

A Watched Pot Never Boils..

Hello:)
So.. I just got an email from AFS, and it said "We will start reviewing submitted applications in late January" Oh my goodness.. That is a REALLY long way away. But I can do it. It will be worth it! But still... It will be tough to wait so long to know if this is a reality. But you know what they say: a watched pot never boils, so I think I need a distraction from this for a little while. 


ALSO, I got an email from AFS yesterday, and received 200$, for a family award scholarship! It absolutely made my night. So that means that I have $3,350.00 left to raise for myself! (My parents agreed to pay half, just in case I hadn't mentioned that before) I now have $3,400.00 dollars that I have raised through babysitting, birthdays, and Christmases. So, I am a little more than half way done with raising money!! And I can't help but smile when I think of that! THANK YOU AFS FAMILY AWARDS SCHOLARSHIP! If anyone, and that means anyone, wants to donate, anything helps. Even 1 or 2 dollars would help, so please sponsor my dream, and help me make it a reality!(: And I have been trying to figure out some possible fundraisers, so if you have any ideas, let me know by commenting below, or emailing me at rachiiramsey@hotmail.com. Grazie 

This isn't really the longest post, but I thought that I would let you know my GOOD news, and my....application news. And I am so happy that this program exists, because I have already connected with so many people, that I wouldn't have ever talked to without AFS(: 

Arrivederci-

Rachael