Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Home=Nurmijärvi

 I have some exciting news! I know where in Finland I will be living, what school I will attend and one of my host families!

The amount of happiness inside me is crazy! Okay so now on to the good stuff! 


Nurmijärvi, Finland!!!!


So that little red spec is my town! I've fallen in love with Nurmijärvi and I can't wait till August 8th to call it home! It gorgeous and it's only 30 minutes away from Helsinki!! 

Nurmijärven Yhteiskoulu!!


Here is my wonderful school! I can only imagine (and hope) of all the wonderful friends I will make while I am there!! I can already tell that I will love it!


Host Family!!!!



Yesterday (3/29/2015) I received an email from my host family!!!! I wasn't expecting it! I thought I had been forgotten about! Haha! So this is the house of one of my host families! It's not certain that they will be my first host family but they are definitely a host family of mine! They're house is so beautiful! They seem like wonderful people! I will have three older host siblings they are 23 (twins) and 17! Annika is the 17 year old (she is older then me by like 2 days! Haha!) she will be spending the year in Florida! Oh the warmth she will have while I'm freezing my butt off!

 As of right now I have 124 (or 123) days till I leave the US to head off on my amazing year! I have language camp from the 2nd of August till the 8th then I will finally meet my host family and head off to Nurmijärvi!
This is major news to my life and I'm so thankful for Rotary for giving me this opportunity!
Hailey

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

IT'S BEEN FOREVER!

       Okay, so the last time I updated was like 50 years ago February 15th! Which was over a month ago! I'm so sorry ^.^

Well this past month quit a lot has gone on...


February 27th 

        I was notified that I'm a semi finalist for YES! This makes me quite happy because I wasn't selected as a semi-finalist for CBYX and I got selected for YES, they only choose 110 semi-finalist for 65 finalist spots. YES is my backup for Rotary, so if something bad happens and I am unable to go with Rotary and I am offered to be a finalist with YES then I will go with YES :)


March 7th

        I had my outbound orientation!!! I got to meet all of the other Rotary exchange students from Virginia which there is about 7 of us and I also met the other two outbounds from my district! Though no one else is going to Finland, I still had a blast! I also FINALLY met Abby!! (I know I already said I met her but I finally met her! 


March 16th 

          I attended my sponsor club's meeting! I spoke and told them about myself and my exchange. They were all super nice and I can't believe I have such a wonderful club! Also a few weeks ago my club donated $1,000 to my gofundme fundraiser (which if you click here you can also go donate) I had an amazing time!

March 20
(I know this is tomorrow but hey)

         Tomorrow I leave for my interview with YES! All 110 semi-finalist come to Chevy Chase where we'll be until Sunday and have interviews and workshops and also lots of free time! I'm pretty excited that I hopefully have a French interview! I can't wait ^^


Hopefully soon I'll be hearing from my host family that I'm still waiting for!!! 



-Hailey



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