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Today I got my "official notification"

all it says is:

AFS Year Programme to
Hungary

CONGRATULATIONS

Amy *****

This is your official notification of your placement in

Hungary

Your papers will be sent to Hungary who will screen
them to ensure you meet their criteria

When you have met AFS Hungary criteria,
they will then guarantee to find you a host family.

Sincerely..
****

I'm going to HUNGARY!!!

I recieved an email today from AFS national office.

It was being sent to both me and *****, because I was left off a mailing list for a very important orientation next month.

This is what it says:

Hi Amy, attached is the information for the orientation camp, I'm sorry I left you of *****'s list. ***** can you confirm I sent you Amy's papers?

Sounds good, yes? No problems here? Nope. This is where it gets interesting and made me go =|

She is off to Hungary.

Wow wow wow.. but I thought I was going to Belgium Flanders?

Am I country-less? Which country is my country?

I am ringing tomorrow to sort this out... I'll keep you all posted, my dearest followers

So... I woke up this morning feeling VERY excited that TODAY was the MegaWalk.

..hold on... you don't know what the MegaWalk is? Ah! Let me explain, grasshopper.

Mitre 10 Mega is organizing one of the biggest, community based events Hawkes Bay has ever seen! All proceeds from the event will go to the Child Cancer Foundation. The Mitre 10 Mega Walk is a 30km run or walk, with both a competitive & a social section. Participants can enter as individuals, a family or a relay team.

You start out at Mega Mitre 10 in Hastings at 8.30 am

...and eventually end up at Mega Mitre 10 Napier...

It was a total distance of 30km

I walked with my father and Hayley :-)

Finished in a time of approximately 5hr20 (but will give an exact time when the times are uploaded onto net)

Here's some pics :-P

This was at the minor prize giving... lol.... i'm apparently not cool enough to get awards at the Major Prizegiving (which is tonight)

Diligence in Geography and Year 13 Information Technology
Service to Library

...lol... thats it....

Today I had two injections.

One was my second lost (of three) for Hepitutus B.

the other was a combined HepA & typhoid vaccination. I believe this is a one-off thing. I hope so, because its hurting...

My last HepB shot is due approximately April.

Soo... on the 25th (i know, i know, two days ago...) I went to the Cellarbrate festival (to celebrate HB wines).

Honestly, I wasn't there for the wine.
Or for Rothko.
Or for James Bailey.
Or that crappy DJ Lil B.
(and everyone was there for evermore and didnt care about the above)

I was waiting for EVERMORE!!!!!!!!

They were freaking AWESOME

but picture it: evermore, outside concert, rain, lotsa people... faaantastic

but i got autograph from keyboardist (Peter Hume) saying "to amy, lots of love" and his signature

songs they played, in no particular order, hoping i get them all:

• Real Life (opened with this)
• Running
• Light Surrounding You
• Inside of Me
• Its Too Late (maybe? or maybe i just listen to this song too much on my mp3)
• For One Day
• Into the Ocean
• there was another, off album Dreams, but i dont know which oneee...
• a new song they wrote which may or may not be on their new album

nope i cant remember any more.

anyway, here's a scan copy of my autograph

if evermore is ever playing in your area, GO!!! I cannot stress this enough, if you dont, you will be very disappointed and miss out on this fantastic Kiwi band. ;-) Ride on!

Tonight was my first chapter meeting as a selected student :-D

There was approximately 8 inbounds from Japan, Costa Rica, France, Canada (Quebec), Germany and Iceland... apologies for missed out pplz..

And there was 2 outbounds there

the first being myself, to Belgium Flanders
the other was Mike to Belgium French

Starr didnt go

When we got there, It was sort've like "uumm okaay what do i do" and so i went and randomly picked someone to talk to, and I was talking to the Iceland Girl (i know names but i wnt say them online) and I asked her to say her last name hehe and maan was it cool (and long and foreign :D)

There was a girl there called Tarlea (spelling...? tar-leah) who looked EXACTLY like Lilly, (Miley Cyrus's friend)

Okay okay back to actual AFS stuff...

After dinner (yuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) they made everyone introduce themselves
The current inbounds said their name, where they come from, and what they did in the holidays
Then the returnees said their name, the country they were in, and what they noticed that was different when they returned.
and then me and mike were holing our breathes (basically..)
AND THEN THEY DIDNT ASK US TO TALK!
so YUUUS!!!!!!!!!
...Mike and I could breath again xD

There was a speech about Costa Rica from the Costa Rican girl
And then a speech about Kanji (which was suuuper cool!) from the Japan girl
And then speech from German-Girl and Canada-Guy about the South Island trip they just got back from.

After speeches/talks was PUDDING! Pavlova, of course ;)
May I just say that we had the coolest table.
It was me, mike, girl, Miley-Cyrus's friend, Willim (PHILLIP LOL) and saskia sometimes and sometimes also mike's dad.

Pretty good night if I may say so

oh and if for any reason you kidnap my cellphone, you will find mike's number listed under "mike belgium rocks"...

...dont even ask xD

These are what the doctor said I should get before I go:

• Hepititus A
• Heptitus B
• Thyphoid (i think thats it?? not needed for Belgium but some European countries need it and if i go travelling for any reason, the country might need it. so its a "just in case" immunisation)

I started HepB today, in my right arm, and also had my first gardasil immunisation in my right arm.
the result? Two sore arms.