2/18/07

I am slowly inching forward on my path towards studying abroad. I got an email today confirming that my application was received. Well, it was actually sent on Friday, but I didn't see it until today. It said to give them three weeks for a reply, March 9th being the 'projected date of letter mailing' and to give 2-4 business days after that for it to actually reach me. Truthfully, I can't remember which address I gave them, though I believe it's my current one and not my parent's address. Now I just have to wait three weeks for the letter and then everything will become official.

I'm so nervous. I know I shouldn't be and that there's no real reason for me to worry about not getting accepted, but I do. I'm afraid that this semester a couple fantastic people decided that next semester is the semester that they want to go to South Korea. Which would mean that I wouldn't get to go. I know that there is slim to none chance of that actually happening, but that's what I think about.

Especially when I have so much time to think about it.

Well, that's all I really have to post for now. At least until I hear back from them. Wish me luck.

Waiting.

Yeah, so the deadline is only two days away. I'm a *huge* procrastinator (as my friends and family can attest to,) so it's really weird to have to wait for a deadline. At least I won't have to wait for that much longer. Then I'll just have to wait until they make an official decision and inform me of it.

Have I mentioned before that I hate waiting?

Since I can't really do anything more until I get the okay from the USF Study Abroad office, I have to wait. I'm very superstitious about jinxing things, so I feel like I can't really make any plans or think too much about possible plans until they say I am accepted. I know, very silly, but that's me.

I have been thinking about it a little bit. I would like to go to Japan at some point, probably not until January (unless Kristen goes to Japan in the fall.) I would also love to shadow in the embassy at Seoul for at least a few days. I thought, since I have 2 months, or 8 weeks, of free time I might be able to apply to intern there, but during the school year they want a full semester and even in the summer they want a minimum of 10 weeks. Since it's only at the Seoul Embassy that I would want to intern at, I thought that I might email Seoul directly (once I get accepted *knock on wood*) and see if I could shadow or intern or something there. It would be great if they said that I could, though I know, it being governmental, that instead they'll either say no, I can't or that I have to go through normal channels and just apply to be an intern through the State Dept. and that's the only way to get in. Well, I can hope.

Of course I can't do anything until I hear back from Rene and the Study Abroad office. So, like I have been doing, all I can do is wait.