Update on the pre-departure information

It has been a while since my last post, but the reasoning for that is because I have not had too much to discuss in the passing months.  Since I have really just been working throughout my summer and not thinking too much about the coming journey, I have had little to say.

I have recently begun to look into ticket prices for my flight to Germany.  I have not, however, booked any flights, for I am still waiting to figure out some more information about the language intensive course I could take prior to the beginning of my actual studies at the Goethe Universität.  This information is to come in about a month.

Since my last post, I have been awarded three very helpful scholarships.  Two of them were awarded to me through the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  The third, as foretold in my last post, was from the highly esteemed DAAD.  I finally received my gigantic packet of information and my official letter of award, which had been so neatly typed out on a typewriter!

More to be told in the coming months!!  Tentative departure date, in my mind, is September 2, 2013.

Unofficial Acceptance

This is my first post on this soon to be heavily used blog!  I would first like to inform everyone, who may not already know, that I have been unofficially accepted to study at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Germany!  I receive my official letter of acceptance sometime in July, but I have received notification that I will be attending this university for the following academic year 2013-2014!  I also have received information from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service) that I have received their prestigious Undergraduate Scholarship stipend. This stipend was one, for which I applied in January 2013 and had been developing and correcting since early October 2012!  I have my German professor to thank for all of the help I received!

Having received information about both of these wonderful events within three days of one another, I felt a huge weight lifted from my shoulders, for I hate waiting for huge news like this!  Since the waiting game is over, I only have a few more things I need to complete before it's time to travel abroad!

Please keep up with this blog, for I will be doing the same, because it will be easier to update this blog from time to time than to consistently contact all of my friends and family, who will be missing me, daily/weekly/et cetera.