Over the first hurdle

The application consisted of writing 7 short essays, each on a different aspect of your life or your own personal beliefs. They were based on:

• How I identify with Britain and what aspects of British Life I would like to share
• 5 activities I do inside or outside school
• Relating one of the activities to the UWC ethos 
• A difficult circumstance I've been through in my life and what i learned about myself
• My favourite subject at school and why
• What I believe I could contribute and learn from the UWC experience
• Anything not covered about yourself

When I first went through the topics I was like...woah, what am I going to write for these and at the time I thought I had plenty of time to write my application so I put it to the back of my mind as the closing date for the applications was January 13th. I first looked at the topics at the start of December.  I was very wrong, before I knew it the beginning of January and I had not started thinking about the essays at all. So I digged deep and sat down for 2 days straight and wrote my application which was surprisingly not as hard as I expected once i got into the 'Zone'.  The application was sent off very late on Janurary 12th as there was a problem with my education reference. The Wait was so long and painful. But then...I had the most incredible news ever!

I found out that I got through to the interview stage on the February 18th 2013. My reaction was to scream downstairs "Mam I've got an interview!!" and doing my very embarrassing victory dance! It was a complete shock!