Summer Solstice

Hello :) It's June 21st (first day of summer) and my summer is really getting into full swing. Today I started drivers ed and I honestly can not think of anything worse. Every morning I get up at 7:10 so I'm ready at 8:10 when my friend picks me up. We then sit in one of the trailer classrooms at our school for SIX HOURS. The room is tiny, crammed with 37 kids and it's freezing! All we do is watch little videos about how you shouldn't drink and drive, and how to hold a steering wheel and then we read chapters in the textbook and do tons of workbook work. It stinks but I really want to have my permit by the end of the summer :/ Drivers ed only lasts through Friday, and the New Pornographers concert is at Memorial Hall that evening. Then, I get my braces off on Monday ^_^ Tuesday is my first Italian class which will meet twice a week every week. Keep in mind the whole time all of this is going on I'm ALSO doing my online Honors Civics and Economics class. It's soooo much work. I'm pretty motivated, but I'm spending about 3 hours doing it every day and I'm barely completing the 16 assignments every week. One little setback I've had is that it appears as if I don't have a student advisor. I have contacted the volunteer for my area and she thinks I should have gotten a name and contact info when AFS sent me my login information for my full app. Apparently not :( So, I'm waiting to hear back from her, which could take a while. I haven't worked on my app at all in a long time, but as soon as it's July I can work on scholarship app stuff which will be fun. From what I understand, if you're rewarded a scholarship you have to turn in your full app within a month after that to claim your money. But if that month time limit is before a year before departure you turn it in the earliest you could a year before. I talked to one of the scholarship reviewers and he said they don't start looking at year long scholarship apps until late late July so I probably wouldn't hear until beginning-mid August, which would be perfect timing for my full app. My counselor will prolly have my transcript stuff a week or two after school starts which would be perfect timing, I just have to work out the doctors stuff as I'm not sure if I have to go in for an exam with the paperwork or if they just have to fill it out. Well, this was a long post, sorry for the rambling. I'll post again in July, probably when I'm at camp. Talk to you soon!