Mar 11 2008
CBYX’ers Unite!!!
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Kelly Hill, a CBYX finalist from the Northeast. Get in touch with her at dewuski(at)yahoo(dot)com.
I’m soooo excited to be going to Germany with CBYX! It is great to be able to share experiences with other exchange students across the country (and the World).
So far my experience consists of…
- Apply
- Wait
- Home Interview
- Wait and fill out more applications
- Semi-Final Interview
- Wait and worry
- Check mail box every day for weeks
- Wait and worry some more
- Phone Rings - “oh no, I bet I didn’t get it : (”
- AHHHHHH I won! I’m so excited
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Sound familiar to any of you other CBYX’ers and/or exchange students???
I’ve been going shopping to get stuff I think I will need. There is a great book out there called Michelin Germany: Plan Discover Explore. I had the old copy, but I just got the new one for around twenty bucks at Borders. It has history, attractions and cities rated with stars, maps, places to eat, etc. It is great for someone to figure out what they should see and how to get there (it even gives prices and how much time you should allow). It is available for many other countries as well and I really recommend it. My parents used it a lot when they were in Germany.
I’d just like to say thanks a lot to Kelly for posting this guest post. I’m hoping to bring in other CBYX participants to this blog ’cause it’s interesting to get a different perspective, but for now we’re all basically doing the same things. When we all get spread out, it’ll be different for sure.