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I still can't believe it. It's like a dream, a really good one.
Everything started with a message of a friend of mine, with only a link in it. “Fulbright - Friends of Fulbright Scholarship. An exchange program for ungraduated students”. I think my heart stopped for one second that seemed like five minutes, and the time went more and more slowly as I was reading the article. It didn’t take me more than thirty seconds to read the whole page. I couldn’t even think what I was reading. It looked like a joke. It was so, so great! Awesome is the word that I would choose.
I had always wanted to travel abroad, working or studying, and this looked like a perfect opportunity. Six weeks in the United States, studying at a really big university with 24 other students from Argentina and a whole bunch of others from different countries, taking an English course, and the incredible part was that we didn’t have to pay a cent.
I run to my mum and commented the article, she couldn’t believe it either. She told me that of course I should apply for the scholarship. The same was said by all the people I talked to, nearly every person I met.
It didn’t take me more than one week to get all the documents and papers that we had to have in order to apply for the scholarship. By that time, I was in exam period, but I didn’t care, of course.
Honesty, I didn’t expect to get the scholarship, or maybe I didn’t want to get hopes up and then do not have the possibility of traveling. I was crazy about it. That’s a “problem” that I always have. I am so enthusiastic about the things that I like.
When I received the email of Fulbright, saying that I was preselected I couldn’t believe it.
Two months later here we are, in Austin, and I still can’t believe it. Only one week has passed and it seems like it was a month with all the things that we have done. We are trying to do as much as we can, to take advantage of all the time we have.
At the moment, I’m loving Austin. It has all big buildings, old houses and others built of wood, like in the movies. The people are so friendly, and since there are a lot of foreigners studying at the university, they are in the same situation as all of us, and for that, they are more friendly, I think.
The university, called “The University of Texas, at Austin” is huge, like a small city in the middle of Austin. It Also has very tall buildings, old and absolutely beautiful. Moreover, there are so many things to do, so many clubs to join (dancing, sports, acting, singing clubs are just a few examples), classes, events, etcetera. In conclusion, I love it.
At last, I would like to say THANK YOU, to Rachelle and Katie, for all this, all the work that you are doing so that we can do all the things that we do, and make this trip amazing.
Luchi
