The Beginning

It's true that you never know what is going to happen in the future. I am on my way to becomeing a well rounded student and civilian of the future. I don't know how everything seemed to happen. Let my start off with how it began. I first wanted to study abroad at the end of my 8th grade year. I really wanted to travel and see the world. I wanted to be a study abroad student because you get to see things from a different point of view in the country that you are going to. Sure traveling as a visitor into a country is easier, but you don't get to learn about the people and see it throught the eyes of the people who live there. My top three choices were England, France, and Spain. These three countries all have amazing history and architecture. I wanted to learn more. So i started to do more reasearch on those countries trying to find boarding schools and opportunities to study abroad. I came accross AYUSA and knew it was the program that I needed to sign up for. Although it took me a year and a half to talk my parents into letting my go throught process of applying I finally did it. After taking three months to finish my ten essays and getting all my proper documents signed, I sent in my application. It took a month or so. The hardest was waiting to know if I was accepted into the program or not. I was so nervous. I would constently check my e-mails and voice messages to see if any of the program leaders had contacted me. I was also very excited. So imaged how happy I was when I was told I was accepted! After being accepted and waiting another month or so to see what family I would be placed in and what city I would be staying in, I am finally in the final stages of my journey to France.