Anyone W/Info Regarding Visiting/Living and Costs/Schools/Cities etc

[SamuraiAlchemistNinja]

Originally Posted by tamago

out of curiosity and to clarify, youre leaving on your own for your senior year in hs?

good luck i guess.......

If I have no one to go with, then yes I will be leaving on my own...
thanx for the good luck

[jasonbvr]

Originally Posted by SamuraiAlchemistNinja

Well...that sounds good...it's a good thing I'm a dedicated person...*sigh* but I wish my parents would just let me go without a fight and quit seizing all my Japanese stuff...
How about "closeness" of places? Things are close, right? (It's probably a given, but just to make sure...) I'm talking about the fact that it's not going to take more than 20-25 minutes just to get to a given store. I'm sure it's not, but just to verify...

You know some of my students when they leave their local middle school will ride their bike for one to two hours through the rain or frigid cold to get to high school at 8 am. Then after you finish school, clean the building and do your sports or art club, they all go to cram school where they study more until about 9 or 10 and ride home to do their homework. Right now, the kids are supposedly out for winter holiday but a lot are at school right now doing club activities all day. Running outside in thirty degree weather and practicing their instruments for four to five hours a day, and the senior students are all studying for their high school entrance exams twenty-four seven. This the dedication you will need. Year round, twenty-four seven, school is your life until after high school.

Finish school in the US or where ever you may be. The school system here is not something any human being should suffer through. Saying it's tough doesn't even begin to describe it.

[SamuraiAlchemistNinja]

Wow...I know I have that dedication, but maybe not so much the endurance...lol...I've got to finish school here, anyways...even figuring possible costs, and taking into consideration the multiple jobs I'll be working, I still come up at almost $1,100 short...*sigh* I hate money...!