If you're reading this you probably already know (or have some level of awareness) that I've been awarded an NSLI-Y Scholarship to study abroad in Korea this summer! It's such an amazing opportunity and I'm eternally grateful. I'm going to try to blog throughout the whole process—and obviously the trip—so if you're thinking about applying, or if you're just curious, you'll know what to expect. Without further ado, I give you my story:
It all started on the fateful day of March 31st.
Just kidding, it's not really that dramatic. I was on wisdom-teeth-surgery drugs and woke up in bed around 6pm. So naturally, I checked my phone, only to find 100+ messages from my friends on various forms of social media saying "OH MY GOD JODI DID YOU CHECK YOUR EMAIL?!"
My inbox took a painstakingly long time to finish refreshing and I finally clicked on the only email without even fully reading the words "NSLI-Y 2016 Application Status." My heart was beating out of my chest. The body of the email said:
Dear Ms. Kirkner,
Please see the attached PDF regarding your application status.
?!!??!?!!?!?!
And of course the attached PDF took like 8 minutes to download because my wifi chose that of all moments to crash. But when I finally opened it and my eyes managed to focus on the tiny words I started screeching, and my mom came in my room like "Jodi what are you-" thinking I had swallowed my stitches (or seen a spider xD) or something...
And that's how my journey began! Within a few minutes of telling my friends, they added me to the Finalists chat and since then I've met a ton of great people who I'll be spending my summer with.
We haven't gotten any more info about the trip yet, but we're expecting our information packets to come in the mail pretty soon. I'll update as soon as something else interesting happens.
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