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Now that I'm coming to the end of my college application process, I'm considering the year-off option once again. I had dropped the idea, with the intention of going straight to school after next summer, but now I'm having second thoughts. See, I'm plain sick of doing everything for someone else (teacher, project partner, just to graduate). I want to live for myself for a while. I know that there's always someone you must answer to, at some point in your life. But honestly? The areas of my life that are mine by choice are few and far between. I'm not going into details, but it's the way I feel. So if I took a year off, I'd get to live for me for a while, and then going back to the institution of school wouldn't be so bad. I guess I just need a break, which I'm not sure that the summer holiday will satisfy.
Options for my year off:

1. Get a job and hang out, practice piano, dance, write. (Veg?)
2. Travel within the U.S., perhaps a tour visiting family along the way.
3. Work on the Elissa, dance in Galveston, play piano
4. Travel to Europe or South America
5. Do some Teaching Company Courses
6. Take the TOEFL course and go teach English in Spain.
7. Hang with friends, get a life, do something useful for the community?

Well. I dunno, that's all I can think of right now. I should probably have it a little better thought out. I guess that I can do more than one of those, certainly. I could do the 120 hour certification for the teaching position while working on the Elissa, teach in Spain for 6 months, and come back to hang out, practice piano, dance, and write for the rest of the time. Just let life take its course.

Well, I'm unsure of what to do. Because I'm already 8 months to 1 year older than my classmates, and that would put me even older than them! All my classmates would be 18 and I'd be 20. It's just a damn shame. I HATE being so much older than everyone else, because upperclassmen have the superiority thing, and I'd be older than them/the same age as them, but inferior. It's already like that a little, as I'm the same age as the class of 2013. 

On another subject, I've been conversing with a few South Korean subjects, to learn more about Korean culture in preparation for teaching English there after I earn my Bachelor's (a requirement for Kr. and most other countries).