It should be right to post something right now

Hello! Or, perhaps, more properly... assalamu'alaykum.

I'll just get into what I want to say. Something big is happening in my life right now, well... you can certainly categorize it as big, because it's not those moments that you shrug off, like when you see a cricket on the side of the road and just shrug it off (because it didn't bug you or anything... did it?). It's certainly bigger than that.

I hope you remembered how I brought up a bit about AFS on my last post. Well, I didn't really say a lot about AFS anywhere, but now, I'll tell you (since this looks like an opportunity to do it): I've been participating in a student-exchange selection under the name of AFS, and I'm happy to declare that I have qualified. Yes, I made it until the last stage, and as I made my last blog post, I was waiting for any kind of announcement for my country placement (as in, which country will I be placed in [uh... duh?]).

I've been quite absorbed in life as I was waiting for the announcement, to be quite honest. I was absorbed with school stuff and whatnot, so I didn't even think about it a lot. People keep asking me, though, How's your AFS doing, Virta? And I would be like, Hmm... I don't know. Still waiting for 'the announcement'. But please keep praying for me!

And now, I am grateful to say that I have already gotten that announcement.

Now, for a little intro.

It was afternoon on Friday, 17 April 2015. I was at the radio station of my school after doing some broadcasting blah blah blah, where afterwards I got a call from my mother, where she said that the broadcast I did sounded good. I was grateful to hear that, because I thought I had just became the awkwardest DJ on the face of the Earth. Yet she thought the broadcast sounded good (or is it just because she's my mother...).

Anyway, in that phone call, my mother suddenly said that my nanny at home notified her that a letter from AFS has arrived and is waiting at home.

You have no idea how 'tense' I felt there.

It's here. The announcement. The announcement that I've been waiting for, for like... I don't know? 4-5 months???

And in there, my destination, my country placement is written.

I was nerve-wrecked.

I tried my best to stay calm. I tried to just... shovel more paths for the rushing stream to flow in, but the stream just rushed quicker and quicker!

And then there I finally was, at home. Still shoveling the dirt for the stream, trying to keep myself calm. The bundle of paper from AFS in hand, I read it and was surprised, glad, yet still nerve-wrecked to see the bold print of my country placement's name...

Argentina, it read.

Woah. And in my head rushed images of football and things related to that. (I'm sorry, my knowledge about Argentina is still limited, at that time.)

So there's that. AFS placed me in Argentina, and if everything goes the way that it should (which I hope), I will be departing from Indonesia to Argentina on August.

But this is still uncertain, though, my departure to Argentina. I'm saying this because the future is uncertain, and there are lots of factors that make or break any departure anywhere. Also, I'm writing this here for the sake of making the first steps of writing about my AFS journey (if that's really happening, which I hope), not to boast or anything. Just making the first pages of my own history, that's all... hehe (God, did that sound cocky? I hate it! But it's really what I'm doing).

Anyway, for the preparation, I'm trying to learn how to speak Spanish; and know more and be able to do more things related to my own country's culture, to be a good representative!

Pray for me, please, or just... wish me luck, if you don't pray? I know I'm gonna need a whole lot of those things, hehe.