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Sorry I haven't written in so long... I'll do a really long update about the stuff that's been going on recently... If I can remember it... Sometime. Heh, vague.
Ok. Well, basically, I've been thinking about le futur. El futuro. De toekomst... or something like that.
I guess it's just the fact that my brother just got his results (535, by the way) and is dealing with the CAO and stuff, and is very soon off to college... I still haven't any kind of clear idea what I'm gonna do with my life. I'm not exactly worried, because I still have two years before any of that stuff starts... Over a year before I have to deal with applications.
If anything, I'm excited. My opportunities kinda stretch out in front of me. The choices are so vast and far-fetching, and it's just... awesome. But with that kind of power to control my life, I'm so afraid of making a wrong decision. And I don't want to close any doors... But in the end, I guess I have to.
I've decided on my subjects for the next two years, so at least that's done with. So I'll be doing English, Irish, Maths, French, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Latin. And possibly Applied Maths, my friend's dad offered to do it with me outside of school hours. And no, there's no innuendo there at all, that's gross.
So the first choice I'll have to face is, do I take a year out, or not? I mean, I kinda like the idea of a break from schooling to go do something... And the second choice is what exactly to do. I'd maybe like to go travelling. Or live in a foreign city.
But even then, there's obviously choices... Like where? Travelling, maybe go interrailing, or that round-the-world trip that Joelle, Beth, Katie and I have been planning. I'd like maybe to live in Paris for a little while. Or somewhere in America, San Francisco, New York, something frightfully conventional like that. Or go live with Sarah for a little while :P That would rock...
What then...? Whether I take a year out or not, I still want to go to college. I've been in love with Trinity since I first set eyes on it, all those years ago. Any thought of going somewhere else was dispelled the day I walked down the cobbled pathways to the Samuel Beckett theatre going to see A Streetcar Named Desire all that time ago... It was magical.
So if I go to college in Ireland (which is by no means certain), I'll be going to Trinity. As for foreign colleges... I really don't know enough about them to tell. Somewhere in America...? Somewhere in England...? Oxbridge?
Even leafing through a Trinity prospectus, there's still so much I'd like to do. My somewhat less practical choices are Classics (which would be amazing), Drama and Theatre Studies, Latin, Drama Studies and Latin, or something like that. But then what would I do afterwards? My ideal job would be living off writing plays, or working with the theatre in some way. But that could very easily not work out...
And there's always the decision to do something a little more practical, and keep my writing and acting on the side.
I don't know. I really don't. Heh.
Ok. Well, basically, I've been thinking about le futur. El futuro. De toekomst... or something like that.
I guess it's just the fact that my brother just got his results (535, by the way) and is dealing with the CAO and stuff, and is very soon off to college... I still haven't any kind of clear idea what I'm gonna do with my life. I'm not exactly worried, because I still have two years before any of that stuff starts... Over a year before I have to deal with applications.
If anything, I'm excited. My opportunities kinda stretch out in front of me. The choices are so vast and far-fetching, and it's just... awesome. But with that kind of power to control my life, I'm so afraid of making a wrong decision. And I don't want to close any doors... But in the end, I guess I have to.
I've decided on my subjects for the next two years, so at least that's done with. So I'll be doing English, Irish, Maths, French, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Latin. And possibly Applied Maths, my friend's dad offered to do it with me outside of school hours. And no, there's no innuendo there at all, that's gross.
So the first choice I'll have to face is, do I take a year out, or not? I mean, I kinda like the idea of a break from schooling to go do something... And the second choice is what exactly to do. I'd maybe like to go travelling. Or live in a foreign city.
But even then, there's obviously choices... Like where? Travelling, maybe go interrailing, or that round-the-world trip that Joelle, Beth, Katie and I have been planning. I'd like maybe to live in Paris for a little while. Or somewhere in America, San Francisco, New York, something frightfully conventional like that. Or go live with Sarah for a little while :P That would rock...
What then...? Whether I take a year out or not, I still want to go to college. I've been in love with Trinity since I first set eyes on it, all those years ago. Any thought of going somewhere else was dispelled the day I walked down the cobbled pathways to the Samuel Beckett theatre going to see A Streetcar Named Desire all that time ago... It was magical.
So if I go to college in Ireland (which is by no means certain), I'll be going to Trinity. As for foreign colleges... I really don't know enough about them to tell. Somewhere in America...? Somewhere in England...? Oxbridge?
Even leafing through a Trinity prospectus, there's still so much I'd like to do. My somewhat less practical choices are Classics (which would be amazing), Drama and Theatre Studies, Latin, Drama Studies and Latin, or something like that. But then what would I do afterwards? My ideal job would be living off writing plays, or working with the theatre in some way. But that could very easily not work out...
And there's always the decision to do something a little more practical, and keep my writing and acting on the side.
I don't know. I really don't. Heh.