It is nearly official! I am lacking, at this point, only two things for my AFS application - a teacher's letter of recommendation and three recent photos of myself.

The letter is being written, there are plenty of camers at my and house and always school pictures, blah as they are.

And my very nice and wonderful AFS contact called someone in Portland, Oregon and Scandinavia doesn't fill up quickly at all! Everyone wants to go to France, Spain, England - the western European countries you hear about. You never hear about Finland, which is precisely what I thought.

Didn't I tell you I'd be going? Even if I didn't tell You, I told nearly everyone else, because I am going. I'm go to watch the new century come in Finland! I'm going to learn Finnish! I'm going to take classes, and get credits and spend my senior year doing college release, saving my parents beaucoups bucks! I just got 100% on my math quiz, so now I am only .3% away from an A! I have to go to World History!

Wait, I'm not so enthusiastically happy about that. Oh well.

I'm going to Finland!