Vaccinations, Application and Rambling

Hi all!
As my papi said earlier the little red checks marks are going down the list. I have everything turned in for the application it's now just a matter of waiting to hear back. I talked to a representative for AIFS and he said that everyone is accepted as long as they reach all the requirements, aka I'm in but I'm waiting on the official yes! I am sending in a scholarship application in the morning as well to help fund this trip.

I'm getting really excited and a little scared too. I don't know anyone and that's a little overwhelming at the moment. But it will be great I know it! It's hard to realize I won't be here next semester. I keep thinking oh it's ok Jackie and I are gonna do this next semester, or Nancy and I are gonna celebrate this next semester....and then I realize I won't be here. ( speaking of celebrating I love to watch peoples faces when I tell them I'll be celebrating my 21st in India and the drinking age is 25...they usually don't know what to say to me other then DAMN UR NUTS! I always respond... "i could pass up the opportunity for one night of drinking, or I could have a semester of great experiences and celebrate my birthday the way another country celebrates birthdays! sounds like a great trade off for me, especially since I can drink the rest of my life it's not like me missing my birthday in the states changes that I am legal"....and no people I'm not an alcoholic...but try and explain this to people in Carbondale and you have to get really creative) I have to come up with a way to tell my residents I won't be here all year, they are all telling me what they wanna do for the rest of the year and how we have all year to do xyz.... it's really hard to come up with words to tell them you won't always be there for them. (By the way I love my residents! they are always doing something off the wall and cracking me up... and who doesn't enjoy a good laugh?)

ok back to the India related stuff and not me rambling about anything and everything

I got vaccinations today and my arm is burning from them but at least I will be healthy while in India. I got a tetanus booster, a polio booster, and hepatitis A. I am also starting the oral vaccination for Typhoid tomorrow. I'm starting to feel really tired but that's to be expected with three vaccinations, I mean my body is trying really hard to recognize these foreign diseases. I will be getting the flu once the school gets another shipment, and I'm also going to get the H1N1. I wouldn't get the flu ones probably if i was staying in the states but Kim highly suggested I get them... so I will be a good student and listen. Dad is gonna help me out and call the insurance company to figure out if the medicine for malaria is covered under the insurance or not. If it's not I'll be taking the cheaper of the two medicines given for milaria and the side effects for the second one is like half a page.... but unlike most medicines this one's side effects aren't actually worse then what you would have so I would take it regardless. ( you all know what I'm talking about for things like allergy medicine... the side effects are like bulging eyes, pregnancy, swollen feet, and naseua, migraines (ok i'm being ridiculous but i think the side effects list usually list some of the funniest symptoms, which sometimes are worse then what you already have.))

I am still working on financial aid, I had to wait for the Study Abroad Fair to be over so that Tom would have time to sit down and work through the numbers.

Oh and dates if I haven't already stated them for ya'll
I leave December 26th
A 6 day tourist trip and then I'll be in Hyderabad
Then I come home May 5th
I hope to make a trip to Carbondale the week of the 10th or sometime during that week.
I dont think I can handle my friends graduating and me not being here for it! Sorry Fam!
you have the rest of the summer with me, you can spare me for a week I have faith you'll
live.

Disclaimer: from here on out I's probably won't be capitalized and beginning of sentences may not be either, i have a hard time remembering and it just makes more sense for me to apologize to those of you it may bother... i can't help it... at least i'm spelling words out... and correctly thanks to spell check :-) Oh and if i swear i'm not trying to offend you i just do it sometimes, and i think there are times where a swear shows the intensity of how you are feeling and other words don't do that feeling justice (sorry dad i know you disagree)

Hey all,
Workin slowly but surely on this application. It's near completion and I'm working on the SIU side of everything..aka trying to weasel answers out of bursar and financial aid offices. I have an apointment on the 14th or September with the travel nurse in the health center so she can tell me what they need to stick me with.
I think I am gonna get the H1N1 vaccine before then cuz I'd rather not get that, from experience me and viruses don't get along and I'd rather not mess with that again. All my classes are a ton of reading, come to find out the reason behind that is the oink oinks (aka swine flu) so that if the school has to go on lock down classes can be run through the internet. I'm workin a ton too we have a new programing model and it's killin me I'm always workin on somethin and my friends all think I'm avoiding them, which I'm not people so don't be offended if I can't chill.
I am on the search for scholarships so if you have an ideas on that I'd appreciate the ideas. I did take a few days off this weekend my friend Marrissa was in town and i hung out with her. Sunday I took a day trip with Amanda to meet Shannon and we went apple picking and to see All About Steve, great movie you should all see! and Monday I read way way way too much for classes.
I also meet a few new people this weekend and a some of them are cool and I hope will be great new friends and then some of them can hit the road cuz I dont put up with jerks or extremely racist people...they get on my nerves and make me want to punch them...and I would prefer not to get arrested. I just think its probably a good idea lol
Ok now as you see my brain has gotten to ramble mode and is goin absolutly nowhere productive so I'm gonna be done for now and write when I have more to say