The day was finally here! I had a hard time believing it! Leaving everyone this morning/afternoon (depending on what you count 12)was hard knowing we could never see each other again. I had a lot of fun the people there were deff. the best! I wish we could all go to Germany I think we would make the best CBYX CIEE group
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We had to be there by 12 even though interview didn't start till 1 because the hour between when we got there and when interview started was to give us time to go get settled into out room and meet everyone. Unfortunalty the rooms weren't ready yet, so I was told to go up to the Williamsburg(Had a little panic attack that I would have to drive all the way back to Williamsburg turns out it was just the name of the room) on the 2nd floor and everyone will be in there. I was one of the last to get there, with three other's who still hadn't gotten there yet, it was honestly quit terrifying because they had the chairs in a big circle so everyone was sitting cross from one another talking and what not. I sat down beside Caitlyn and Hannah. It was torture honestly because everyone in the room had to sit there and kind of size everyone up I guess. We sat like this, at least for me, for an hour no one but us were in the room.
One finally came around before I knew it we were introducing ourselves and what not, the problem is I have bad hand and eye coordination and we were throwing a ball to one another >.< so of corse the ball I threw was horrible. We did a game to remember each other's names called the "Name Game" we had to find something that started with the first letter of our first name and we also had to remember everyone who was in front of us' name. It was pretty difficult when your towards the end.
-Sam: Santa
-Hannah: His suspenders (John's)
-Ian : Ice
-Eddy: Entertainment
-Mera: Magic
-Shannon: Showbiz
-Sophia: Seeing movies
-Natlalia: Night time
-Joey: Jiff
-John: Jogging
-Cameron: Coffee
-Lauren: Lauhging
-Lena(I think >.<): Lamps
-Sabath: Saturdays
-Jericho: June
-Abagail: Airplanes
-Ava: Acrobatics
-Vanassa: Violen
-Evan: Excat change
-Sierra: Sugar
-Lauren: Lemiers
-Ben: Beans
That's all I can remember off the top of my head and I hope I have them all right. I had my interview sometime between 2:00 and 2:20 not sure it was schedule for 2:30-3:00 but I was out before 2:35. At first I thought I did pretty good but as time went on I started regretting saying some things like I said I was pretty attached to my phone I also regret not saying something's that I really wanted to say. I was asked what 3 things do I expect to gain from Germany and I wish I would have said that I expect to grow as a person and find myself on the journey of my year abroad but that totally was not in my mind when I was thinking of what to say for an answer. Especially when it was time for bed and I couldn't fall asleep so I thought about my interview and what I said at least what I could remember.
I gave it my all and on or before March 28th I'll know the truth if it was good enough.
I can't imagine not being able to go to Germany with everyone from the Richmond interview. It was a lot of fun and on the whole ride home it's all I talked about I'm still talking about it! It's great to be with people I can relate to sooo much! They understand everything! It's crazy! It's not like how at school people ask why would you ever want to go live in another country for 10 months because everyone here wants to too! It was just ahhhmazing!
I have to wait 12 days until Finalist Notification aka the 12 days of Hell. I'll post when I find out if I'm a finalist or not fingers crossed I am!
-Hailey
-P.S Here are photo's from this weekend! Also I forgot to write about a lot of other things I wanted to talk to but it's late and my brain is foggy.
Here is the Richmond group <3 Photo creds to Julia!
The view from my hotel room
Natalia, Sophia, and I
