As you all well know, I have applied for the summer program to Japan through the organization Youth for Understanding. I have already created this blog in the hopes that I will be selected, however, I will not find out until April if I will be going. So, I'm giving myself this grace period to explain what has happened so far to those who do not know in detail what it is that I'm doing.
On January fifth of this year, I submitted my application for YFU. Honestly, I didn't expect to get in. I thought my application was okay, but certainly not worthy of selection. However, in February, I was contacted for an interview. This was really exciting because it was very early for someone to get interviewed, and I was the second person from LASA to get contacted. However, in my opinion, the interview did not go very well. I am trying to keep my hopes high which is difficult to do considering the fact that what is likely the most important part of the application went fairly poorly.
Wish me luck, cross your fingers, I want to go to Japan.
I will be updating constantly along the way. Every time I get an email, a letter, a phone call, have any contact at all, you guys will be the first to know. Hopefully, this is the first of many blog entries. And, hopefully, most of them you will be reading while I am in Japan.
Best wishes to you all.
-Jordan