The local Rotary club in my district is sponsoring one student to go abroad for a year, and i would only have to pay for my airplane tickets. I have done some recearch on the program and it looks like a wonderful experience, but i would have to miss my juinor year in high school and everything else that is happening during that time. I would love to experience something like that and learn so many new things but im scared i will miss out on my time in high school. They are only picking one person from our school to go and as far as i know only 4 people have applied and I think that i am the most likely to be picked-but i am still having some reservations.
2007-10-31 19:38:38 · 7 answers · asked by jody 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Studying Abroad
Go for it. It will be a lifetime experience. All your classmates will envy you.
You will still be back for your senior year, so it's not like you will miss out everything at high school.
2007-10-31 19:41:42 · answer #1 · answered by terliuke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it means a lot to be part of your high school experience, but a year abroad would be something that will stay with you long past high school and help you to develop your perspective on the world in a whole different way. Also, consider whether you are likely to have such an opportunity again anytime soon. Considering the benefits and opportunity for growth, I think you should definitely go. You may have some hard times getting used to a new culture and way of life, but you will also meet really nice people and gain so much. It may even be a first step in figuring out what you would like to do for a future career. And, last but not least, as you apply for college, if you do, you will be a more interesting candidate for many schools if you have been in an overseas program.
2007-11-01 02:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by surlygurl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't sound as if you're really sure about it right now, and because of that, don't make a hasty decision. Pray about it and seriously talk it over with your parents. A year away from home in a foreign country is a long time, especially if you've never been out of this country before.....and you're so young right now too.
You're already missing your friends and the various things that you would be doing if you stayed.......so please give it a lot of thought...okay? You can become very homesick, especially at 16!
I've lived overseas several times and I was a full grown adult with a husband and children, but my heart felt heavy a lot of times because I missed "home" this land.
Right now my son is studying abroad in Italy, how I miss him, his time will be up and he will be returning to the States in January 08' and I can hardly wait to hug him. *smile* He's older than you, he's a junior in college...if he had been a junior in high school, I would have had some reservations about him going.
I really wish you the best sweetheart and I hope that you will make the best decision.
ps.....it is an oppurtunity of a lifetime, and he's enjoying every minute of it!
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2007-11-01 02:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by sugarbee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you do, don't miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity! I have been overseas and the experience is too wonderful to miss. The exposure to other cultures, languages, views of life, ways of life, etc. I don't know where you would be going, but the European experience, the orient experience, any of them would be too important, toward your development, to miss. You wouldn't have to look back on it later on and wish that you had done it. You would still have your senior year to look forward to and a really enriching experience to take with you. Not only just to your senior year, but into and through the rest of your life.
2007-11-01 05:23:53 · answer #4 · answered by ethology 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drop all your reservations and pray that you emerge the successful applicant. Rotary programs are wonderful experiences. All these things you are talking about will be nothing in comparison with what I am sure you will get with Rotary Club.
2007-11-01 02:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by Nolly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was an AFS exchange student for 12 months to Thailand, I paid my own airfare and paid 2 airfares for a student from Africa and Thailand to go to Australia. I worked 2 jobs on weekends and at night to pay for it even though I had won a scholarship and the fee could have been paid for by 1 of my employers. If you want to emerge the successful candidate then forget 'I' and think exchange, ain't no I in exchange.
2007-11-01 04:41:28 · answer #6 · answered by Bewildered Quagz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go for it Once in a life time opportunities.....Don't turn them away you might grow to regret it otherwise and it soundz like if you don't try you will regret it cos you are already thinking about it it's not what you'll miss you should think about but what you'll experience if you do it anything is possible if you do it.....
Good luck on decision....
2007-11-01 02:43:40 · answer #7 · answered by Rosey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋