Pre-Departure Orientation

So yesterday at around 8 in the morning i went to a pre-departure orientation meeting. Its supposed to be a meeting that everyone goes to before the actual orientation so they can tell you all the information that you basically already knew :). It was a nice time and everyone but one person showed up (you know who you are..*cough* Brian  *cough*.

Anyway the meeting was nice in a small room in deerfeild beach Florida in some library. Before going i lost the address so i got kind of freaked out but my mom saved the day.

So the whole meeting was pretty uneventful and i couldnt really stop noticing a few things. One was the women named Pam who is the person who interviewed me for the trip. she said she never had kids and i could tell. She was hosting a girl from germany and another from korea and she really did not know how to talk to them or do stuff with them at all. also she seemed to have a real problem with talking to adults and whenever she talked to one of them she would always get really pissed. 

A funny thing happened and i might just scan the paper and put it on here. The rules that they passed out at the meeting were sooo dumb. they contradicted each other saying things like " give people there space dont touch people to much" then later saying " body contact is good try to touch others as often as possible. My personal favorite rule was " keeping eye contact is very rude. try your best to keep your eyes on peoples shoes at all times" after reading this i looked all around the paper for something telling me that this was supposed to be the opposite of what i was reading. 

Another thing that i noticed at this thing is the amount of people who really dont deserve to be going. there was only 2 other people there going to japan and a few going to france and other places. but the people going to japan seemed completely undeserving. both of the kids had gotten scholarships because their parents worked for the companies. Also one of the kids had taken 1 japanese class and seemed like his parents came up to him one day and said. "hey your going to japan" .. then he said "sweet". i dont know maybe its just me but most of the people ive met online that got rejected seem like they were more deserving.

anyway it was a good time and the girls from korea and germany and the one who went on this trip 2 years ago were nice. really looking forward to the next 2 weeks as i should be getting all my info about the host family i will have and everything. going to be a great time and i cant wait :D

(wow i am really bad at keeping things short)