Rebekah

Congrats!!! I got the call, too, and I am heaading to Tanzania for the year!! I can't believe it. I had made other plans, too. Such great news! Does anyone on here know if there is an orientation in DC for fellowship winners before we leave?

Hi All! I need everyone's help - if you or anyone you know applied for a Boren Fellowship or Scholarship for any of the African Language Initiative Programs please get in touch with me immediately (by this Sunday night, May 8 at the latest). I have some exciting news and a potentially great alternate opportunity if you would still like to go!! JG33 - thanks again for doing such a great job with the spreadsheets and getting this board up and running. I hope you know how much we all appreciate it! ALI aplicants email me at: wilbergr@uwm.edu as soon as you can. Thanks!!

Thanks for a great reminder, Emily! I love that you wrote out your plan B before the award announcements. What a great reminder of everything else you have to offer....you should have told all of us to do that sooner!! I also applied for ALI and was wondering how many awards were given. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Boren reps made it sound like an extra 10-15 awards would be given to applicants interested in ALI. I'm also curious how many alternates there are for each country. Were you planning on attending the UF SCALI program this summer?

Thanks again for doing this, jg33....I think you missed my post earlier for the spreadsheet. I am an alternate

Let us know what Boren responds regarding whether or not it is country specific. I was wondering the same thing, but will spare them the extra email. Thanks and good luck!!!

I hadn't contemplated it until receiving the email, but now it's an option. I am registered. I'm looking into it today. Problem is that I am just about finished with my MA so I may just head over to TZ on my own and take independent lessons there. I went this past January and have made enough connections that it may be more cost effective to do it on my own - not as intense, but who knows? To be honest, I'm not sure which end is up right now.

Yeah, I don't know what to think. Especially considering I included the summer portion of the program and I would have to start in 5 weeks at UF. Do you know if alternate means someone else has to drop out from your specific country program or just not accept any of the programs?

alternate....let the wait continue

If I had a dollar for every time I checked my email in the past 48 hours, I would already have the $30K and I could fund my own program.

New FB and Twitter update from Boren: "The award notifications for the Boren Scholarship and the Boren Fellowship will go out this week." Pretty much the same ol' message...

I got the email, as well. On April 21 I contacted UF regarding registration confirmation. The email you should have received when you registered for UF states that you are not completely registered until your emergency contact info is updated; however, in order to do this, a UFID is needed. The rep at UF said she would email the registered students to let them know how to set up a UFID when she had further information. I am assuming the email today is in response to this. In short, don't forget to update your emergency contact info!

Thanks for joining in, alanz! Welcome to the excruciating wait....

Wow! 29 Users reading this post today?!?! That's the most I've ever seen. For those of you who are guests and haven't joined in the discussion yet, what were your program proposals? Good luck to everyone....Looks like we may have another restless night ahead of us

If this were facebook I'd "like" your response, riverguide.

Ok, I'm back. So here are a few things you can check out: http://www.omprakash.org/travelresources http://www.abroadreview.com http://www.cev.be/29-links-EN.html http://www.volunteerlogue.com/guide/resources/ A great book to check out: 500 Places You Can Make a Difference Also, this may be an obvious one, but check with your local Rotary Club to see if they have scholarships available to support your overseas program. Hope this gives you a start. A word of warning: after taking my last trip to Tanzania in January I found that of the 15 volunteers who came and went while I was there we all paid different amounts of money to different organizations all owned and run by the same man. What a discouragement! Be careful. Do your homework and try to find an organization that is, at the very least, a nonprofit.