Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. --Al Franken

A 2 months after my first interview and the 2nd one's already on it's way. This will be the district interview. The final interview. It will be held on November 27th, 2010 out of town. I'm looking forward to that, as it's only 2 weeks away. To prepare myself I've been reading a lot of Canadian/World new magazines, as in the last interview I was sorely lacking on my knowledge of Canadian/World News & Government. It's lucky that I'm taking History A30 this semester as it's all to do with Canadian History and Government :)


Today November 9th,2010, I got a news from the district coordinator of when my interview will be, what time, where and to bring 2 cheques dated for when the Rotary Money Payments are due. I'm absolutely jumping up and down right now. For the past month I can't stop thinking about Exchange. All my thoughts are on it and when I'm thinking of something else, the exchange isn't far beneath that thought. I don't know what to expect of that interview but I hope it will go good. I pray that it will go good.


As I mention, all my thoughts are on my exchange. One of the questions is, where am I going. My club already knows where I'm going and they told me I'll find out sometime before Christmas :) But that makes me curious and thinking/imagining of all sort of things. Where am I going? Am I going to Japan--my first choice, the choice that I really want. Or am I going to Belgium or Denmark? I don't know. When I first signed up for Rotary I was very closed minded,I realize this now. All I wanted was Japan. Now I do not really care. I mean I'm not saying that I won't be sad if I get Japan or that I don't want to go to Japan, cause I do. I've always had a dream of spending a year in Japan, and I'm a determined person who likes to fulfill her dreams. I've spent the last four year studying Japanese because I absolutely love the language and because I hope to become almost fluent in it. So when I first started I was very closed minded. But now I'm starting to accept that it's possible I could not get Japan, I could get Belgium or Denmark. And I realize that isn't bad. Those two countries seem to pop up everywhere in my life these days (mainly history class & my Oma's Kitchen).


I don't know where I'm going but I want next year to be challenging, new and to mark my independence in the world. Japan might not accept me because of my grades. Though these days school has been a great distraction off the exchange topic :) Part of me is excited to find out where I'm going and the other half is dreadful. I'm at the stage where I'm curious, impatient and it starting to dawn, a bit, that I'm going to be away in a foreign country for a year next year. Until next blog :)

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. --Al Franken

A 2 months after my first interview and the 2nd one's already on it's way. This will be the district interview. The final interview. It will be held on November 27th, 2010 out of town. I'm looking forward to that, as it's only 2 weeks away. To prepare myself I've been reading a lot of Canadian/World new magazines, as in the last interview I was sorely lacking on my knowledge of Canadian/World News & Government. It's lucky that I'm taking History A30 this semester as it's all to do with Canadian History and Government :)


Today November 9th,2010, I got a news from the district coordinator of when my interview will be, what time, where and to bring 2 cheques dated for when the Rotary Money Payments are due. I'm absolutely jumping up and down right now. For the past month I can't stop thinking about Exchange. All my thoughts are on it and when I'm thinking of something else, the exchange isn't far beneath that thought. I don't know what to expect of that interview but I hope it will go good. I pray that it will go good.


As I mention, all my thoughts are on my exchange. One of the questions is, where am I going. My club already knows where I'm going and they told me I'll find out sometime before Christmas :) But that makes me curious and thinking/imagining of all sort of things. Where am I going? Am I going to Japan--my first choice, the choice that I really want. Or am I going to Belgium or Denmark? I don't know. When I first signed up for Rotary I was very closed minded,I realize this now. All I wanted was Japan. Now I do not really care. I mean I'm not saying that I won't be sad if I get Japan or that I don't want to go to Japan, cause I do. I've always had a dream of spending a year in Japan, and I'm a determined person who likes to fulfill her dreams. I've spent the last four year studying Japanese because I absolutely love the language and because I hope to become almost fluent in it. So when I first started I was very closed minded. But now I'm starting to accept that it's possible I could not get Japan, I could get Belgium or Denmark. And I realize that isn't bad. Those two countries seem to pop up everywhere in my life these days (mainly history class & my Oma's Kitchen).


I don't know where I'm going but I want next year to be challenging, new and to mark my independence in the world. Japan might not accept me because of my grades. Though these days school has been a great distraction off the exchange topic :) Part of me is excited to find out where I'm going and the other half is dreadful. I'm at the stage where I'm curious, impatient and it starting to dawn, a bit, that I'm going to be away in a foreign country for a year next year. Until next blog :)

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