Friday 31 May 2013

Just by chance

A couple people have been asking me lately how I found out about UWC and what made me apply as many of them had never heard of UWC before. Well, neither did I until around October/November time. One of my best friends from school Holly, had heard about Atlantic college in Llantwit Major, but we both thought it was just a really good reguar private school. How wrong were we! My form teacher Mrs Perdue then looked into arranging a trip down to Atlantic college to take a look around. So we did just that, a few students along with Mrs Perdue took a trip down to the college along with another local comprehensive school. It was there I discovered the amazing UWC.

One of the English teachers and a few of the first years showed us around the campus and explained the UWC to us. I absolutely fell in love with the idea of attending a UWC as their beliefs and ethics mirrored my own. Mrs Perdue turned to me at one point in the trip and said "Can you imagine yourself here?", and just like in cartoons I had a light-bulb moment that this is now the direction that I want to take my life in. On the journey home the other students and I were thinking about applying, but for a number of reasons I was the only person from my school to end up applying. Mrs Perdue instantly said she would do my reference needed for my application. But as I have said a thousand times never did I expect to get in!

So it was completely by chance that I heard about UWC and its really thanks to Mrs Perdue for organising the trip and for guiding me to apply that I got in. So thank you Mrs Perdue!

Thursday 30 May 2013

The beginning!

Hi Guys!

My name's Selina. I am nearly 16 years old. I was born and brought up in the Neath Valley, South Wales. I've lived here all my life in a tiny Village called Cwmgwrach. I went to Blaengwrach Primary School and then later continued my education at Llangatwg Community School. My first  intentions were to attend one of the local colleges but then the most epic thing happened!

My life has completely changed in the last couple of months as my dreams have truly come true and I've been accepted into a UWC (United World College). I will be attending UWC Maastricht in the Netherlands! This was a complete and utter shock. Never did I even expect to get an interview but to actually get in and on a partial scholarship completely fried my brain!

This blog will help me record my time at the college, the build up to it and I will also share my experiences of the application process and the interviews.

So yeah this is my little blog which I started today on the 30th May 2013!

Want to make a donation, this is my page! Or to read articles about my placement visit here or here!

Thanks for taking the time to read! 

Selina