Konichiwa, reader-sans! Today is a beautiful day! It's humid, the sun is covered by clouds, it was storming earlier, and it's really hot outside, but after eight grueling days of attempting to fill out the paperwork to set my Gold Award project in motion, Turtle-chan has just finished and mailed it all off! (*cue fireworks*) Now, in case you are curious, the paperwork is six pages long and extraordinarily convoluted at times. I had to sort of sit there and stare at some of it in the hopes that I'd figure it out. Needless to say, it's pretty tough to answer some of those questions. The hardest part, though was dredging up the things I learned in elementary school in order to mail it off. There is no e-mail for the paperwork, reader-sans. Oh, no. You get to use--wait for it-- snail mail!
Yep, snail mail. As in, you have to get an envelope and stamps and go all the way to the post office and actually put it in a mailbox and everything! Now, I can hear you guys groaning all the way from here, so I'm going to tell you to stop for a moment. It's not that bad. You guys hopefully know your own addresses and names and you can usually find the proper send address with a little help from Google or a phone book or what have you. Then all you have to do is write it on the envelope, put the papers in, seal it up, and send it off. Does it take a little more effort than e-mail? Well, yeah. But is it really so bad? Nope! Besides, it could be worse. They could be asking us to fax it in. I'm going to guess that most of you reader-sans have little to no idea what a fax even is. For reference as well as a chuckle or two, I send you to this little comedic tidbit by the Youtuber Tobuscus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDgQJBVJxg
Anyway, back to things that actually matter. Now that I've sent off my paperwork, I have to wait at least three weeks for the council to review the paperwork. Once they've done that, I'll be given the date of when I go to face the Spanish Inquisition--in other words, when I go to interview with the council in the hopes of gaining approval for my project. (By the way, if any council members read that and are feeling insulted, I promise it's merely in jest!) After that, I wait another week for them to finish reviewing and I'll get word of whether I can proceed or if I have to repeat the entire process in order to fix things. Now, I'm personally hoping I was OCD enough to get it done right the first time, but not having to redo it to fix things is virtually unheard of, so don't get upset if you get sent back. I'm not going to tell you guys what my project is until I've gotten approval from the council, so as not to confuse you when I actually start working on things.
For anyone who wants or needs the paperwork to complete, here is the link: http://girlscoutsnca.org/wp-content/uploads/Girl_Scout_Gold_Award_Proposal.pdf
I think that's all I've got for now, so until next time, reader-sans! Keep on rockin' and rollin'!
- Turtle-chan
