<p>are we saying what we are and aren’t looking forward to?
if so, haha </p>
<p>looking forward to: meeting new people, learning a new way (harkness), living in a dorm 
not looking forward to: preseason; i am terrified i am not conditioned enough and that it will be insanely hot like it was for me last year</p>
<p>looking forward to: getting out of manila, new experiences, new people, amazing teachers (though i definitely had those back home as well), dorm life, getting challenged by the classes
not looking forward to: the homework load, cold winters (i’m a tropics girl and i freak out in the cold), goodbyes (home is just so far away)</p>
<p>^^Gabiiwoz: I can’t wait to learn Harkness either, though I feel as if I am going to do really bad at it and I will say something stupid when I talk and everybody will have an awkward silence. D=
I agree with you JoshByron: I am also looking forward to the snow and cold weather…I like it much better then hot weather.</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to the warmer weather. Winters are so bad here and everyone is like cold blooded so they don’t even notice.
I feel like I’m going to say something stupid during Harkness too. Or that the conversations will be so over my head that I just sit there and am like 0.0</p>
<p>^ Agreed, winters in Fargo, ND are horrible (spent a christmas in Moorehead, Minnesota :)).</p>
<p>Hey guys, Don’t act like Harkness is all new and foreign to you. You are already familiar with it at the dinner table with your parents. So don’t sweat that you’ll faint at the Harkness table discussions. :D</p>
<p>looking forward to getting my dorm assignment!!!</p>
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<p>This is true in our house, but you’d be surprised how few families even eat together on a regular basis and those who do, often do so with the TV on. No one ever shuts up in our house! There isn’t even a TV down stairs and there is only one, old 26" TV in the whole house…so we read and talk and play music and talk and eat and cook and talk. </p>
<p>(and spend WAY too much time on the internet 
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<p>^ Same is true at my house. Although, we do have more than one tv in the entire house (3 to be exact…well, four, and everyone has their own laptop). But we ALWAYS eat together, and, since there’s no tv in the kitchen we can’t really watch tv while eating…not that we would.</p>
<p>@pulsar, unless your family hardly has dinner together and only lasts at most 10 minutes…</p>
<p>It’s so weird. I have been waiting to go to boarding school ever since Christmas, and now it is so close. It seems like time has just flown by. I can’t wait till’ I leave, but it just now has kind of hit me how I will have to leave my family for a big chunk of all my high school years. Only 20 days left for me untill I leave. Im just like urbanflop, I have a lot to do before school.</p>
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I’m afraid our son has led a mostly sheltered life. Yes, we have interesting dinner table conversations almost every night, but, apparently unlike Pulsar and others, we basically all share the same perspectives, cultural traditions, religious backgrounds, etc. etc. Narrow of us, eh? We do often invite “outsiders” to dinner with us, partly for greater diversity of perspective, but we envy the fabulous diversity that our son will experience at Exeter’s Harkness tables. I strongly suspect that it will go way beyond what he has experienced at our dinner table. In fact, we wish we could be flies on the wall there!</p>
<p>KC, I completely agree with you. I started my boarding school search one year and a half ago, and now, in just 26 days I’ll be heading to boarding school. It all just seems so SURREAL!!</p>
<p>Oh, we debate constantly. Usually, my daughter and son go at it while I play Devil’s Advocate and my husband shakes his head and keeps quiet. So even though we all come from the same background, we don’t always agree.</p>
<p>“Don’t ya’ think?” is not a rhetorical question in our house. You learn not to ask it unless you’re prepared for a thirty minute “discussion.”</p>
<p>She’s gonna miss him.</p>
<p>@neatoburrito, that’s really similar to my dinner table(: Except usually my brother and I team up against my mom, and my dad just sits there, eats, and then changes the subject.</p>
<p>25 more days until schools starts. Some of my friends are jealous of me because their going back to school next week.</p>
<p>KCcansps15-I agree with what u said. its like the “boarding school dream” is finally becoming a reality really fast.</p>
<p>^ I completely agree too! This weekend I cancelled my cellphone plan 
We also bought new luggage for my trip and made hotel reservations and plans (Red Sox game!!! woohooo!!! :D). It feels so realistic now…</p>
<p>why did u cancel ur cellphone plan?</p>
<p>^ I live overseas…so there’s no use paying $40 a month for a phone I’d really only use for a few weeks a year.</p>