The Gilman Scholarship Update

It is official, as of today every part of my Gilman scholarship, including the transcripts, has been received so there is absolutely nothing left for me to do but wait and see if I get it! So get exchited for my next entry with a title "Gilman -Anything-" because it just might mean I have some more financial help for my study abroad... Other than that I am still kind of stagnate for another month until I hear from ISEP about my application and where I got accepted. Still hoping it is l'Université Paul Valéry en Montpellier... wish me luck!

Passport

Yay to the world! My passport came in the mail today! And you are never going to believe this but my picture isn't half bad; that's a first. Now I am off to make a photo-copy of the identification page to send in to CampusFrance to modify the number of my "piece of identification"... woohoo. But at least I have my passport, that is a big checkmark on the massive to-do list.

The Gilman Quest, Continued

Well my study abroad advisor got back to me about my essays; he said they were great and needed no changes at all, so that is good news. Tomorrow I will be dropping them off to be officially submitted, and I probably will not hear back about my application until a few months from now. But I'll let you know. Today I'm mostly doing normal homework so there is no exciting study abroad update for now.

The Gilman Scholarship

I am definitely trying to find help to pay for this expensive elongated vacation also known as study abroad. Right now I am in the middle of preparing my application for the Gilman Scholarship. If I get it I could have another $5000 at my disposal, which would be awesome. Though it is impossible to know whether or not I will get it, there is certainly no harm in trying. I just submitted my two essays to my study abroad advisor so that he can give me feedback on them. It is due March 1st (Mom's birthday!) so I'll let you know how everything went sometime around then. Next on the list is getting my passport in the mail.... I'm still waiting on it, even though you'd think that for $120 the service would be decently speedy, but apparently not, since I'm on my 5th week of waiting.

Le Commencement du Blog, Boo-yah

Today I started this blog, it is my first so I am trying to figure everything out. This blog is going to carry me through France, provide me with a public diary so that I can vividly remember all of my experiences, keep my avid reader Ellen Anderson enthralled with my travels, and most importantly connect me and my wonderful husband across a few thousand miles. Here goes...