<p>Actually now that I’m went back to reread the email, it says if it doesn’t work for a variety of reasons, they won’t penalize you. So I’m sure both of our cases are fine! Phew!</p>
<p>@lindzmm I was also convinced that the deadline was the 15th for a while, so I talked to her late last week, emailed her the instructions/fax number I got, then went in to try to talk to her and confirm that she had everything she needed on Friday but she was in a meeting with someone so I couldn’t. She didn’t send me confirmation that she got anything I gave her, so. Scary.</p>
<p>Oh, yay! That’s great :)</p>
<p>I also think that if your grades you got for the last semester are on par with the other grades you’ve gotten, it can’t make that big of a difference. Especially because at my school, we had what would be our midterm grades done in November and these are like final grades for half my classes, so they’ve already seen grades from this year.</p>
<p>Yeah, they’re exactly the same as I’ve had, and if the original transcript that my counselor sent had a progress report on it (or quarter grades) they will have seen that. I’ve had pretty steady grades throughout high school, so I’m not concerned about the grades themselves. Just them being reported :P</p>
<p>Haha don’t stress, I’m sure it will be fine! They’ll understand if it’s late.</p>
<p>Thank you 
So, on a different note, I’m raving about one book to everyone - it’s called The Milk of Birds, by Sylvia Whitman. It doesn’t come out until April (I got an advance copy for reviewing through my library), but when it does, everyone should read it. Readers of this thread, read The Milk of Birds. Then tell your friends to read it. Reeeaaad. Read. Read.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: What is it about? </p>
<p>I’m so excited for hearing about the interview. I’m just so PUMPED. I am excited for the interview (if I get one, obviously) and meeting all of the other applicants and just aaahhhhh EXCITEMENT.</p>
<p>@windowpainting It’s a book about two girls who get paired through a (fictional) charity organization called Save the Girls, which connects unwed young girls in internally displaced persons camps in Darfur, Sudan with sponsors who send money and letters. Nawra is the Sudanese girl, and she gets paired with KC, a girl from the US who hates reading and writing because of her difficulty learning. It’s one of those books that has the potential to be horribly depressing but turns out uplifting (I can’t deny parts of it are heartbreaking, though), but it doesn’t have that annoying quality that many of that kind of books have - kinda preachy and <em>too</em> uplifting. It’s incredibly honest and has a lot of one-line or one-paragraph bits that make you think for much much longer than it takes you to read them, and makes you think as a whole (as well as gently providing accurate information about the condition in Darfur - I say “gently” because often realistic fiction about topics that some might not know about give background detail through infodumps. This one doesn’t.). The story is told both through first-person narration and the monthly letters that KC and Nawra send (though KC only starts sending them a few months in, because of the aforementioned hate of writing, and there’s a few month delay between all of the letters because of the time it takes them to get from place to place).
I really recommend it. If you like books that make you cry, this one will, but if you can’t stand crying over books, it won’t - it’s touching, not sad.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: Oh dear I’m SUCH a crier. I’ll have to read it, although I’ll need at least one or two boxes of Kleenex! Have you heard of a novel called “Sold” by Patricia McCormick? When I read it during my study hall one girl asked me if someone in my family had died because I was so emotional!! Those books are the best sometimes, though. They really make you think about the bigger picture.</p>
<p>@windowpainting No, but I just looked it up and it looks fantastic, and I can see how it’d make you cry! Although I tend to restrain myself somewhat at school, I’ve definitely been in that situation before. I can’t seem to find the actual source of this quote (I just saw it floating around somewhere on tumblr, but I don’t know who posted or said it first!), but it summarizes a feeling that I know well…“that moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.”</p>
<p>The Milk of Birds has a different feel than Sold, I think - it’s incredibly broad and could really be letters between any two good people (obviously, the situations they’re in and things that happen to these people would be different, but the growing understanding between the pair and their concern for each others’ problems is a very universal product of clear and honest communication).
I don’t know how to classify its genre, the uplifting-and-revealing-book-about-wonderful-people-in-terrible-situations, but The Milk of Birds is to that genre what The Fault in Our Stars is to “cancer books.” It’s definitely one of them, but that’s not its focus or main appeal. I don’t know! I just adore it.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: Thank you for telling me about it! I can’t wait to read it when it comes out.</p>
<p>@windowpainting I’m glad I got to tell more people about it! I’m probably going to get Sold, thank <em>you</em> for telling <em>me</em>!</p>
<p>@moramora i’m from BC! wow it’s great to know someone who’s applying from here!!
I’m gonna pm you as well because i don’t know how you’ll see this</p>
<p>Just sent in my app yessterday in DK!!!</p>
<p>Best of luck, alpacallama!</p>
<p>Thanks! I guess I’ll now in about two weeks I think?</p>
<p>@alpacallama: Can we just have a quick moment of appreciation for your username?</p>
<p>There’s a terrific alpaca farm about a 45 minute drive from UWC USA. The alpacas are adorable! If you want to see something fun, watch the live streaming of UWC USA’s Caribbean/Latin American Day show this Saturday at 8pm mountain time. My D is an honorary CLAD member because she’s fluent in Spanish. She says the show will be great!</p>
<p>Thanks for letting us know about that Apollo6! I’ll be at a family event but do you think it will be available as a recorded video?</p>