The Interview

So if you read my last post you are probably wondering what I was talking about at the end there. Well, here it is. In order to be fully accepted into the P2P program you have to have an interview. Also for this interview you have to bring a recommendation from two teachers and a recommendation from someone in your community. Well, if you know me you know that I am home-schooled. So, how in the world am I supposed to get two teacher recommendations when they have a rule that no immediate family can write a recommendation? That would have been a problem except for the exception applied to home-schoolers. Go home-schoolers! So they tell me that I can get the recommendations from anyone in my community that knows me well. Now I have to decide who to pick, and it is a lot harder than you would expect. At the time I was at Campbell University taking  a class for college credit (or at least I thought I was, but that story is for another time.) The teacher of that class was really nice and I thought that he would be a good choice for my letter. Little did I know, when you are at college in order to get a recommendation from a professor you are required to give the professor a resume. Trying to write a resume when you have never done one before and you haven't even graduated high school yet is interesting to say the least. But I got through it without much trouble and the professor read it and even gave me a few pointers for next time. My others recommendations were from my boss and a man in my church. Well, I take them to the interview all signed and sealed, and I'm already a little nervous. It is a big opportunity and, as you can imagine, I didn't want to mess it up. The delegation leader for the trip did my interview, and I was in the room with another girl and a guy. It goes ok I guess. The woman, Ms. Gail was her name, was very nice and she just asks us some questions. It's all pretty painless just like I read it was going to be (not that I believed it at the time) and I'm all ready to go. It doesn't take long before we get the call. I'm in the program! And that was all before I even received my package in the mail containing a travel journal, certificate for the program, information for a website that prepares me for the trip, or go to the very first information meeting.