January 2010

Hello again I know it has been a while since I have last posted something and I do apologize. So much has gone on since I last posted. To start, I will say that over thanksgiving I recieved donations that helped and I am very thankful for all of the people who have donated. I am still looking for anybody who might be able to donate and help me out. For Christmas I recieved money from my grandparents that I have decided to put towards my AFS tuition.
One of the ways that I raised money while I was out on snow days was by going door to door in the neighborhood offering to shovel driveways for a dontation of five to ten dollars, I did this for four days, I also got some houses that in the spring I will be able to mow lawns as another way that will hope fully help me with raising money. By the fourth day I raised about one hundred and twenty dollars. Which combined with some of the money that I got from christmas I now have two hundred dollars going towards my tuition.
This last weekend I was a volenteer at an AFS mid-year orientation. Here I learned a lot about what I might go through with my host family or problems I might run into. I also met a lot of really cool people who by the end of the weekend were some of my best friends. At the orientation we played a lot of games that were really fun.(like sweedish twister) While I was there I learned about a lot of different countries and different cultures. I met people from so many different countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Thailand, China, Russia, Egypt, Costa Rica, Chile, and Kyrgyztan. I can't wait until may for another orientation that I ill volenteer at and get to see all of them.