<p>Oh well! I love Chinese and trying out new food in general, so I don’t think I would mind too much 
However, my mom on the other hand is worried…</p>
<p>@mrnephew I told my friends, and they took it pretty well actually–thank god! I heard that one person’s friend just started crying, if that happened to me, I’d probably start crying as well…</p>
<p>My friends have known from the beginning (as in last year when we looked at school websites in homeroom), so I guess I had it lucky! I didn’t really realize people’s friends had this bad of reactions. It’s interesting.</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn’t either, but I didn’t tell them off the bat. After I told them though, they started feeling bad for me, which makes sense…I guess…</p>
<p>One of my friends cried when I told them. A few other people supported my decision. A lot of people asked why.</p>
<p>Haha I get asked by so many people WHY boarding school. My friends are all very supportive, as this has been a two year journey for me. They actually got to have me around an extra year, so I guess they should just be happy about that. So we are going to have a party during the summer before I leave haha. I suggest you guys do that too! You could have like a mini graduation party, but for boarding school! </p>
<p>Not a lot of people ask me why, but tons of people think it! Some of my teachers asked (my school goes through 12th grade) but more so as in why I was leaving. Even so, it was tough to answer. I don’t think my friends really understand but whatever. They’re supportive, so it doesn’t really matter whether or not they understand.</p>
<p>My friends are supportive. I was new this year and I didn’t decide to apply to boarding schools again until the end of October. But even when I started the process, I was pretty quiet about it. Most people knew (even people I wasn’t close with) I was applying places by January though and were happy for me. People always have questions and they think it’s a cool thing, some of them saying “I always wanted to go to boarding school!” Ironic because if you REALLY wanted to you would’ve applied. But overall, very supportive. Leaving my current school is gonna be bittersweet because I finally have it good there. Great opportunities always have some risks, but this opportunity is worth stepping out of my comfort zone for.</p>
<p>@boardingjunkie I have many friends that go to boarding school and about a week before 3 of them left for school, I had a party with them and a few of my other friends, there were some gifts given, etc. They’re sophomores now. Had another round of freshman friends head off to school this past year. I can honestly say from firsthand experience, it’s always tough being the kid who gets left behind…</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean, it’s difficult to leave people you’ve known for a while behind, no matter how much you’re excited to leave for it. </p>
<p>I’m actually super excited for the new friends too! And, if it makes it any better, when I toured a local option (which I realize is totally different), they said they realized who their true friends had been and who they had just been friends with because they saw them five times a week. Which sounds interesting, actually. The people they stayed in contact with and who wanted to see them on weekends had been true friends; other people they lost contact with. </p>
<p>And, on another note, people always say something about Zoey 101. As in “Boarding school always seems so fun! You’ll be like on Zoey 101 or something!” </p>
<p>My friends understand and stuff, because a lot of them are going to local Academies and private schools for high school, they just feel bad for me because its boarding school, which they think is in the middle of no where. </p>
<p>@boardingjunkie OMG! That’s what I was doing…</p>
<p>Eh, people over here always think of Hogwarts, they never mention Zoey 101.</p>
<p>@mrnephew Yeah, I guess you are right, but won’t we get to meet them during breaks?</p>
<p>I’m not gonna hold a party, I’ll just go and chill with a few of the dudes, last time enjoying that California summer beach.</p>
<p>I’m not, my family’s moving somewhere else, so I won’t be able to see them. :(</p>
<p>@bonjourhello Deerfield is in the middle of nowhere. 
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<p>Eh, it’s closer to civilization than Hotchkiss, though.</p>
<p>Hotchkiss is truly in the middle of nowhere. But at the same time, it’s kind of nice. There are pluses and minuses to being urban (or suburban) and to being rural. So I know, for me at least, that didn’t really play into it.</p>
<p>Hotchkiss is so far in the middle of nowhere that they have terrible cell service.</p>
<p>They do! I could barely get ahold of data to call my family in Korea there.</p>