EXCITMENT!!!

So I have started the application process for AFS! I am going to get it all in before I go to MN for college visits on the 19th (of November) an I finally have enough for the first deposit! If anybody is reading my blog and is interested in what i am doing, here is the gurrila e-mail that I sent out. I also started a FB group also focused on this e-mail... enjoy.

My name is Devyn-Reilly Packard; I am a 16 year-old senior attending Casco Bay High School in Portland, Maine. I am planning on being an exchange student next year, to support my love of language and different cultures, but I need help. Norway is my first choice country, but other possibilities are Sweden and Denmark.
To make this dream happen, I need to raise over (USD) 10,000. I am currently attending (high) school full time and achieving honors, as well as working two jobs that give me 20 hours a week. Unfortunately, this is not enough. My parents are unable to help me financially and I have little chance of getting financial aid. While I am applying for scholarships they will not be enough to completely cover the trip.
I am planning on going on my exchange trip with the American Field Service (AFS). Last year I had a Norwegian exchange sister that came with that program and three of my closest friends went for year long exchanges as well. In that year I listened to the stories from my friends and my exchange sister about their orientations and trips around their countries and other countries as well. They learned their country’s languages, and all of them wish vehemently to return to visit those countries the lived in for a year. I too wish to understand those feelings, and hope that you will help provide me with the chance.
What am I asking? I am asking for this e-mail to be sent to everybody in your contact list. I am asking for donations. I am going to give everybody who donates $2.50 a piece of my cap and/or gown. I am also going to keep a blog that will let anybody interested read about my experiences.
For everybody who helps, thank you, I hope to send you a piece of my graduation and sharing with you my experiences.

To make a donation please send cash or a check to:

Devyn-Reilly Packard
19 Willowdale DR, Gorham, ME 04038

For more about AFS intercultural programs visit: http://www.afs.org/afs_or/home

Thank you, so very much.

~ Devyn-Reilly J. Packard ~

I fail

I just remembered that I have a blog... weird.

I mean its not like anybody wants to read about my busy life but here goes.

I joined ravelry.com two days ago now and Im just getting to filling out the personal information! I think I will change my name on it to either Maren Street or Devynski... which is better do you think? (to my non-existent readers)

i just have to rant. Today in work (subway, I FINALLY got a job... actually two) this woman came in and was the rudest b*tch ever. i was going to help another customer who had 3 subs when she walked around him in line and started to order her sub. I was astonished! so I asked her politely to get back into the line where one orders one's sandwich and asked if she minded if i finish helping the customer in front of her. it was a rhetorical question but she said "uh, actually yes i do" in a snippy "holier-than-thou" tone. i was so shocked that i apologized to the customer in front of her and got her food.

when I finally got rid of her i apologized again to the patient customer and he said it was no problem, and that the woman was crap. it made me feel better about not helping him like i should have and it made conversation for my coworkers and i. i hate b*tchy customers, they need manners, they need to know i am not dirt on their shoe.

On a different note i have major senior-itis. I have so much difficulty staying in class (especially physics) that i feel like crying, i enjoy the topics i just cant sit still!!! I am glad I'm going to MN so i can get away from all of it, though it means missing another sociology class... :P

I started my application process for AFS!!! i am so excited about it, though not very vocal... my Norwegian has been improving too!

ill try to post again if not tomorrow then some time this weekend. ttfn.

Mind Fuzz... what is it?

I have decided that it is time to go insane.

I have realized that this blog will be accessible from school computers because of the gmail account... the only problem is I will not be able to mess with my other blog as easily, RR accounts are sooooo annoying...

so, this blog is my way of telling whoever cares to know what the heck is going on in y life to make me happy/sad/care-to-write etc. etc. So if you don't care about pointless writing I would stop reading now.

I just wrote stop as stpo, which for some reason made me think Gestapo... how weird is that? i guess it's time for the teachers to stop with the studies of different wars and on to more peaceful and less mind messing subjects... I will try to lead them in a better direction as soon as i can figure out an interesting topic for them...

I really want to be asleep right now, and I would have been, but I was supposed to baby sit tonight. I could have started working my new job tonight except I thought I had baby sitting... *grrr*

Speaking of new job!!!! I went into a local pizza place to see if they would take a resume and was surprised!!!!! (I love exclamation points, I do not apologize for the excessive use of them.) I introduced myself and asked if the manager had any questions about the resume I had dropped of two months ago or if they needed a new one. The manager quickly looked at my name on the resume, then said "you're hired." After a few minutes of chatting and going over details we scheduled when I am going in to "learn the ropes" and I ran out to the car to exclaim my success to the world. Life is good.

Finals start tomorrow, ugh. But really the only final I have is in Humanities... oh, and french... I should finish that... I should do that now... ugh...

ttfn!