Letting Go (student/teacher)

"I cant believe I got excepted" I yelled jumping up in down. I ran inside ingnoring the fact people were starring at me. "Dad, I got in" I ran into his study and saw him sitting at his desk writing some stuff. I set down the information packet and sat down infront of him.

"That is great dear." He didnt even look up at me. I hate when he does that. I could get away with wearing my bra and underwear to school and he wouldnt even notice.

"You need to fill out the papers and put it in the mail." I sighed and walked out of the room. I went up to my bedroom to start packing. I cant believe him. I get into one of the best boarding schools and on a full ride scholarship and he cant even be the slightest bit happy for me. It figures. I went over to my board with important stuff on it and took down the article that I first saw about the school.

It read-

New South Wales Australia- Forrester Boarding school.

We are looking to give a full ride scholarship away to a very bright student. All you need to do is send in your name, address, and school information. We will look it over and whoever gets it will be able to go here completly free of charge, the only fee that would need to be payed is the traveling fee.

This school is inqupipped with dorms for all the students to use, with 2 roommates, a cafeteria, pool, football field, tenis courts, dance rooms, the top teachers we could find, and more.

And then it listed a whole bunch of contact information.

When I looked up this place on google and saw the pictures of it I fell in love. It looked to be a 5 floor building with many other buildings sorrounding it and then you could see the features it had. The pool was huge. It even had pictures of the dorms. It had 3 beds in it and a bathroom. They were nice and big with carpet, tv, and cumputer in each room.

I was soppossed to leave in a week so I started packing. I looked at my night stand and saw a picture of my mom holding me when I was first born. She then got up and left when I was 2. The only thing I knew was that she got re-married and moved to the United States. Its okay though my best friends mom taught me all the things I needed to know.

 I grabbed my lap top and logged on booking myself a flight for Thursday at 11 in the afternoon. There school has already started and it is in the middle of the first smester so I will probably be lonly for awile but thats alright I can just try to be the new, not shy girl.

Hopefully it will go alright.

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"Ticket please" The lady standing by the plane tunnel said. I handed it to her and she took it and said "Have a nice flight." I smiled at her and started walking. I turned around and waved at my friends and dad. They all waved back and I started walking again.

This past week was all packing and saying bye to my friends. It was actually really sad.My friends threw me a going away party and Katie my best friend gave a photo albem and a new camra. The Albem already was have full and then she said the next have was for my new friends pictures. It was a really sad day. And then my dad just gave me a very akward hug goodbye and said have a nice flight.

When I got onto the plane I took my seat next to the window and smiled at the old man that was next to me. He just scoweled at me. Hopefully he will get off on one of the 4 stops ahead of mine.It is going to be such along trip, I dont know how long though. But going from Cornwall United Kingdom all the way to Australia is going to be far. And boring.

I put a piece of gum in my mouth so my ears wont pop and was ready for lift off. I ended up listening to my ipod and falling asleep, so when I woke up some lady was shaking me. "Could I get you something to eat ma'am?" I shook my head no and mumbled a 'thanks anyways'.