Lunch and Renaissance Fair

Hello my lovely readers!

I know I haven't been blogging much, but there isn't a lot going on in my life right now that is interesting.  However I am writing this because there were two things that happened, that I consider interesting, so I am going to write about them.

First of all, on Friday I had a lunch for a scholarship that I won.  This lunch was a big deal.  I'm not exaggerating.  There was the mayor of Anchorage, the Governor of Alaska, and the Secretary of the U.S Department of Commerce there.  Now because I won a scholarship, I had to give a speech.  Normally I am not really nervous about public speaking because it's something that comes naturally to me, but I was.  Aside from those people that I just listed above there were a lot of important people from a lot of different companies there, as well.  Needless to say I was nervous.  My speech only had to be about a minute.  I did really well apparently, someone from BP came up to me after and told me that I did a really good job, which was flattering.  I am really happy that that is something I got to experience because by winning this scholarship (it was for high school graduates and college undergraduates who want to/are studying International Relations.)  I can really see my life coming together.  I don't know how to explain that further, but I can see all of the potential I have and I can see the direction my life is headed in and that's a really good feeling.

Aside from the lunch, yesterday I went to the Renaissance Fair with my sister.  It was really fun.  We probably would've stayed longer had it not been so hot.  Keep in mind, hot to Alaskans in 70'F.  I'm going to die in Turkey, when it's 80 and 90 everyday, having to where long clothes.  Oh well, it is so worth it.  I also got to see two of my friends who were volunteering there and I really want to volunteer there next year.  It looks so much fun, although they were dying because it was so hot outside.  I also got my fortune told, which was an interesting experience to say the least.

Aside from that, working, learning Turkish, reading and practicing my viola is all I've really been up to.  Vowel harmonization is awesome!  I wish the English language did that.

As I write this, I have 15 days left before I leave for D.C!  I'm really excited, actually that's an understatement.  This week I plan on going through everything, clothes, toys, etc... And then next week will be packing week.  Next week will also be more exciting because I'll be doing more.  Next weeks post will be Turkey specific, explaining more in-depth about why I am going to Turkey because, as you can tell I really haven't been doing that much and this week I have nothing planned.  I also really want to write a Turkish specific post, so that will be in seven days.

I think that pretty much covers everything for this week!

Till next time,
-Sarah