SO! This is my blog! Now you're probably wondering what is it about? Well I will tell you. My name is Cinthya and currently i'm a senior in High School. I recently applied for a scholarship to study abroad, with NSLI-Y. The scholarship is actually to study abroad as a foreign exchange student. It's a competitive scholarship started after 9-11 when the government realized how critical it was to have peopple speaks languages like korean, hindu, chinese, arabic, etc. There were about 1,900 applicants this year and I just became a semi-finalist! I just had my interview... an hour long, yesterday. It was actually really smooth and pretty fun. For those of you that don't know me, I was actually fortunate enough to receive a summer scholarship to study abroad in Japan my sophomore year. It was THE most incredible experience ever! So now I have the travel bug! haha. For Nsli-y I choose three languages:
My choices
1. Korean (south korea of course)
2. Hindu (india)
3. Chinese (china haha)
My first choice is South Korean... I would LOVVEEE to go and experience the country and culture. But even though it's my first choice, who would not want to go to India and/or china?! I think I would be happy being a foreign exchange student anywhere!
So I will head out now! I'll write soon!
