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 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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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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Sain Tietää Vyöhykkeeni!

  ^^ Finnish is so cool thanks, Vilma for the translation^^

Isn't she so cuteeeee! Hahah!

Anywho! What my title means in English is..........

                               
                                                   I HAVE MY DISTRICT!!

I'll be heading to district 1420!

Helsinki is located in my district!! So I could be placed in/near Helsinki! Also my district is also in Estonia so I do have the chance of being placed in Estonia, which would be cool also :)

I'm so glad to have my district! I got it a lot earlier then I expected, so I was caught off guard this morning when I checked my email and saw it there!

"Exchange is change. Rapid, brutal, beautiful, hurtful, colorful, amazing, unexpected, overwhelming and most if all constant change. Change in lifestyle, country, language, friends, parents, house, school, simply everything." (Vilma picked this out for me <3)

-Hailey

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And My Country Is.....

FINLAND!!!  I got my country notification tonight! I'm so excited! In 5 months I will be heading to Finland, and I'm honestly so grateful for this opportunity! I want to thank my sponsor club; the Yorktown Rotary Club and everyone in my district who helped me!

-Hailey

One Year Blogversary!

One year ago today, I started my blog! A whole year has gone by and many many things have happened and changed and even I see that myself has changed.

Well the whole reason I started this blog was because I was chosen as a semi-finalist with CBYX. I can be very superstious, and I was very hesiteant about making a blog because I was fearful that if I made a blog I would not become a finalist. I saw other people who started a blog before they were chosen as a finalist and it didn't bite them in their butt so, I did. Though I wasn't chosen as a finalist, I'm glad I made this blog. I re-read my excitement of getting the email, anticapating interview, the excitment of interview, anticaption of finalist notification, and the heartbreak I recieved from my rejection email. I truly felt the world had ended but, it didn't I'm still here and kickin.

Now I going abroad with Rotary like my intentional plans, I'm happy with my life.

As of right now my blog has 1,541 views! In only one year that many people have seen my blog, it's kinda crazy!

I am beyond excited with what this year has to offer. 

One year down, a billion more to go :)

*Don't forget I am fundraising for my exchange on gofundme click the link here, if you want to donate!!*


Hailey

I am offically an outbound!

I had my interview today and I am glad to say I am officially an outbound with Rotary!!!! Ahh, I'm so excited!!!

I've already started a Gofundme fundraiser, to fund raise the money for me to be able to go! This is the next challenge I face. I hope with this fundraiser and me asking local businesses and saving the money from work, I should have enough! Every dollar counts! If you can donate please please do! Also, please share my fundraiser with your family nd friends on Facebook! Help me get the word out there of my efforts to send me abroad!

The url to my fundraiser is http://www.gofundme.com/haileyrye

Thank you!
Hailey

SPONSORED BABY!

So like 2-3 weeks back I received an email from the rotary club saying they will sponsor me!! So on Thursday I have my district interview with my YEO, and I'm pretty confident I'll be fine. I'm going to be starting a fundraiser on GoFundme soon, so I can pay for my exchange. I'm going to update after my district interview on Thursday!

In other news I turned 17 on the 10th!! I can't believe in less then a year I'll be 18... I'll be an adult and that's kinda a scary. 

Well until this weekend! 

Hailey