OH BLOODY HELL.
There is not a more effective way to waking up than being angry. Takes you from 0 to 100 in less than 2 seconds.
MAS is offering cheap tickets, so I booked mine last night - under the pressure of both my parents. The initial idea was to travel with a friend, so that at least I'd have someone to keep me company. Plan B was to go alone, which is okay, because there's a possibility that the school in Japan would send someone to pick me up - like how they have done for my seniors.
Here's the catch - while I have booked my ticket, my friend hasn't. And with the way my parents are going "Oh, must book ticket fast! Otherwise you won't get it!", it seems that it will be nearly impossible for my friend and me to be on the same flight. Brilliant. And in Plan A, I had planned to maybe stay with a friend in Japan - keyword here being planned - I have not properly discussed this matter with anyone I know in Japan.
Plan B : Do not buy ticket until informed by the school which date they would be able to pick me up. Which, hahaha, is a bit too late.
So wow, the worst case scenario leaves me going along to Japan (which isn't THAT bad), and not having a place to stay before I enter my dorm, which is QUITE bad. Unless the dorm allows me to enter upon arrival in Japan...
My teachers have told me REPEATEDLY NOT TO GET TICKETS YET DESPITE THE CHEAP PRICES. And I normally do not do things on the spur of the moment - call me The Great Procrastinator - which I am, anyway - I rather think things through thoroughly before agreeing to any course of action. I just didn't want yesterday to end on a sour note after it being such a great day and all. Bad choice, only to wake up on a horrible note instead the next day.
While it is silly to blame my parents - I know they want the best for me - I'm frustrated at myself for not being able to hold my ground in that argument. Yes, I know it's me, not my friend who is going there to study. Yes, I know that cheap tickets snap out fast (which is why I wanted to book WITH my friend, so we'd get on the same flight dammit!) And even if this has nothing to do with my friend, MY TEACHERS THEMSELVES HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO BOOK YET SHIIIIIT WHY WAS I UNABLE TO BRING UP ALL THESE POINTS LAST NIGHT?
Oh so veryeveryvery frustrating -- where the hell did my stubbornness go? I should just said no, gotten a yelling at, and be done with it.
Ah, my dear parents, in a bid to save money, will not only probably have to pay more in the long run. And will probably worry because I do not have a confirmed place to stay. Hahaha the irony.
Maybe I should follow shoji_tokairin's example and stay overnight in a cyber cafe or something - what, 500 - 800 yen only?
*goes back to slamming head against wall*
MAS is offering cheap tickets, so I booked mine last night - under the pressure of both my parents. The initial idea was to travel with a friend, so that at least I'd have someone to keep me company. Plan B was to go alone, which is okay, because there's a possibility that the school in Japan would send someone to pick me up - like how they have done for my seniors.
Here's the catch - while I have booked my ticket, my friend hasn't. And with the way my parents are going "Oh, must book ticket fast! Otherwise you won't get it!", it seems that it will be nearly impossible for my friend and me to be on the same flight. Brilliant. And in Plan A, I had planned to maybe stay with a friend in Japan - keyword here being planned - I have not properly discussed this matter with anyone I know in Japan.
Plan B : Do not buy ticket until informed by the school which date they would be able to pick me up. Which, hahaha, is a bit too late.
So wow, the worst case scenario leaves me going along to Japan (which isn't THAT bad), and not having a place to stay before I enter my dorm, which is QUITE bad. Unless the dorm allows me to enter upon arrival in Japan...
My teachers have told me REPEATEDLY NOT TO GET TICKETS YET DESPITE THE CHEAP PRICES. And I normally do not do things on the spur of the moment - call me The Great Procrastinator - which I am, anyway - I rather think things through thoroughly before agreeing to any course of action. I just didn't want yesterday to end on a sour note after it being such a great day and all. Bad choice, only to wake up on a horrible note instead the next day.
While it is silly to blame my parents - I know they want the best for me - I'm frustrated at myself for not being able to hold my ground in that argument. Yes, I know it's me, not my friend who is going there to study. Yes, I know that cheap tickets snap out fast (which is why I wanted to book WITH my friend, so we'd get on the same flight dammit!) And even if this has nothing to do with my friend, MY TEACHERS THEMSELVES HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO BOOK YET SHIIIIIT WHY WAS I UNABLE TO BRING UP ALL THESE POINTS LAST NIGHT?
Oh so veryeveryvery frustrating -- where the hell did my stubbornness go? I should just said no, gotten a yelling at, and be done with it.
Ah, my dear parents, in a bid to save money, will not only probably have to pay more in the long run. And will probably worry because I do not have a confirmed place to stay. Hahaha the irony.
Maybe I should follow shoji_tokairin's example and stay overnight in a cyber cafe or something - what, 500 - 800 yen only?
*goes back to slamming head against wall*