11 posts tagged “belgium”

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

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.

Luucky, since Belgium is a European Country, I only need one (potentially two) vaccinations

• Hepititus A
• and i had a blood test yesterday to see if Hepitutus B vaccination needs re-doing

And also i get my first gardasil vaccination next week (and HepA at the same time if I can)

I suppose you think that I'm starting travel vaccinations pretty early... in fact i'm not. HepB can take 6 months to do, and I leave for Belgium in just over 10 months time! Eeepp!

Tot Ziens!

Official Notification Certificate

Soooo...like i said... I've been placed in Belgium Flanders

This is a picture of the certificate of "official notification" that I was sent back in... i dunno... february or march.

Naturally I, of course, blanked out personal stuff like my full name, address and the name of the person who sent it to me. But I left the important stuff there ;-)

The status of my online application is still "accepted"

but my friend's application is "transfered," which I believe means it is in Costa Rica :-)

So yes, basically this is a post to say that I do in fact have an official placement certificate and it does in fact say Belgium Flanders

Thank you all for viewing my waste-of-time post. Have a good day!!! =P

AFS: BELGIUM FLANDERS

its decided!

Note on top says:

Hi Amy,
I'm sending you these in advance of HUNGARY saying yes!
It might be helpful!
Regards

Afs books

And I loved how the Hungary booklets were on top (lol)

One called 'Welcome to Hungary' and it has like 20 pages and its general Hungary information
The other is Guidelines for Personal Safety: Hungary

And for Flanders I got:
"Happy Stay in Belgium Flanders" i dont know why, but i thought that was cute ^^
and Tips for Personal Safety in Belgium-Flanders

Thank you AFS NZ =)

And although I don't have my country yet.... this reading will certainly fill in the time =)
(and prevent me from suffering from breaking-dawn-ititus)

INTERVIEW DAY!
Team Building with the outbounds and Panel Inteview!

This morning:

Team building. There were 6 of us there. (3 to France, 1 to Canada (French), 1 to Chile and Me. That is, 5 girls and 1 boy. Only 7 outbounds in total from HB, but one of them couldnt be there.)

This actually only lasted like an hour. After that i spent a half hour talking to the AFS Advisor (AA) Sarah about my country situation. We firstly did this thing with chairs, KIINDA like cheops pyramid (do you know the pyramid game?) but with people. I mean, that alone took 40 minutes. We then played human knot, twice, (grab hands in the middle and try and untangle it). The first time worked really well but the second time took AGES. And also a blindfolded game. first you gotta find everyone. then in the hall there were 2 items. One was a rope. you had to find the rope. and blind folded, using everyone, you had to make this rope into a square. hard. and then the second time there was a rope and a stick. you had to suspend the stick in the air with the rope. blind folded this was too.

I talked to Sarah (AA) about my countries. She said I am out of the age for Hungary. BUT. Hungary is NOT a popular choice, and the people that are placed there usually DO NOT pick it. Its a 'left over' country, heresay. Thats not saying there's anything wrong with hungary, its just that people would rather go to france spain japan argentina etc. Hungary is a "strange" choice. Now, back to what i was saying. The age restriction cuts me out of the running for Hungary. But as it is not a popular country, I may get in IF there are any places spare *FINGERS CROSSED* and she says shes pretty sure im the only person in NZ that actually has it on their list this year.

so I had to fill out the country form again.

1st choice: Hungary

2nd choice: Flanders (mum said if i put hungary first, i MUST put this second. so i said OK hoping like hell i get hungary)

3rd choice: Czech Republic (apparently pretty popular)

and my "OK" countries (eg i dont care whether or not i get them, just extras in case they need them) are: norway sweden finland (all of scandinavia lol - oh except denmark)

So about Malaysia.

Mum said NO.

AFS people tried talking to her. she said NO.

so i go "ok, as long as i have hungary."

AND NOW THE PANEL INTERVIEW.

The questions were hard!

things kinda like:

think of a situation when you made a bad decision

what was your most embarrassing moment and what did you do

what would you do if you were placed in a family whose beliefs were very dfiferent to yours and how would you handle this (i didnt actually answer this one)

what would your teachers say about you if we interviewed them

what do you hate most about school (ENGLISH TEACHER) and then i had to explain why and what i do to try and settle this down

things like that. they were awesome though, im pretty sure they liked me lol and they wanted to know "why hungary? why not...spain? france?" and i was like " -_- because it feels right."

i mean, wat is it with FRANCE?!? two of the interviewers went to france and the other to USA! common countries. where's the out-there countries!?

i go on a lot of things based on how they feel to me.

so i am happy about how things went today.

and dont get me wrong, i still love you, Vlaanderen.

Fingers crossed for Hungary!

Sarah

who is going to Japan next year

left a comment on my blog :)

she likes twilight, says the pictures on her blog

I like the twilight series

and i even made a banner  :-)

I was looking for some this morning

I am going on exchange, no matter wat.

i am going to learn dutch (ok flemish)

so i went looking for some online (trademe ferrit dymocks and fishpond)

but noooooo there was nothing

i also rung AFS and requested a phone number of a previous belgium flanders exchange student so i can chat about flanders =D