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my highschool drop-out story Friday, June 4, 2010 If you're here because you're curious about why I dropped out of high school, I hope you'll come to understand. I don't think anyone likes to be judged. So I explained it the best I possibly could. It might not justify my decision but at least it explains it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It started in secondary 4. Right before the school year started, my family & I moved from Chomedey to Two-Mountains. I was completely against it. One of the reasons I failed that year is because I decided to travel exhausting distances to and from school every day to continue to be a part of my friends' lives in Laval. I wanted to have fun rather than what I felt would be wasting my life away. I needed to experience the things I'd missed out on, like going places with my friends. That's also when my addiction to ditching started. I didn't even bother go to the end-of-the-year-exams. I was going to fail one way or another. It's weird, because all year long I couldn't stop dreaming about college. I continued failing when I was forced to go to school in Two-Mountains, to start secondary 4 all over again. Everything turned black and white. I couldn't stand anyone around me. People were so entirely different from people in Laval, and so painfully different from me. I tried to tell myself that I was the weird one but that just made things worse. In the end I secretly despised everyone. I talked about it to a school councilor. He told me that I was depressed, and suggested Adult Education. I didn't know much about it, but I figured since it had the word "adult" in it, that people would either have to be more mature or perhaps more independent, giving me the choice of being left alone, which is something I've always been comfortable with. Barely 10 minutes after heading back to my class I made the decision to drop out and go to Adult Ed. I skipped out of school without saying goodbye to anyone. In my head I was giving LTM the finger and taking a shortcut to College. It felt GREAT. Of course, that was a terrible idea. Adult Education is far from being a shortcut, and the people in it aren't exactly... what I had in mind. Adult Education slows everything down. So now, while my Laval friends are having the time of their lives doing the things they love, developing special skills and growing up with their old & new friends, I'm stuck here. French in the morning, math in the afternoon. One book at a time. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday. That's it. It hurts, because I'm an incredibly passionate person with a bunch of creative potential. I've been looking forward to College longer than anyone I know. I thirst for the kind of things I should be doing right now. All I wanted was a less painful shortcut. Instead, I got turned into a big dry sponge, and time is moving slower than ever. 0 Comments: Post a Comment

name: Tiffany date of birth: May 28 1992 languages: French & English About me: I'm a friendly but somewhat reserved person with a passion for creativity, for things like books, paintings, objects, clothing, scenery, music, photography, movies, and so on. I like people who are true and open minded. About this blog: I blog because I like it. I think it's a funner and truer way for people to get to know eachother than Facebook. This is my space. music: Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Imogen Heap, The Sounds, Tegan and Sara, Blue Foundation, The Sounds, Metric, Feist, The Beatles (+ Across the Universe soundtrack), Olivia Lufkin, Crystal Castles, Zero 7, piano music movies: A.I. Artificial Intelligence*, 1408*, Sleuth*, What Dreams May Come, Vanilla Sky, The Chinese botanist's daughters, Twilight, Garden State, Alfie, Across the Universe, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Girl Interrupted*, V for Vendetta, The Pianist*, Coraline* TV shows: Fringe, The X-Files, House, The L Word, Death Note, Honey & Clover, 1 Litre of Tears books: A Million Little Pieces, the Uglies series (the first 3 only), everything by Amélie Nothomb

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