I promise you i'm leaving, but i promise you i'll be back.

music: Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

When i was in primary school, i asked my parents to send me to boarding school in england. i searched the tuition fees, and boarding fees and everything. And they said no, because why should i when we have such a fabulous education system here.... they were right. Once i was in secondary school, in seconday three to be exact, i wanted to go so bad, i started thinking up ways to get my butt there. I devised a plan and a proposal to have a class trip, and educational trip that would take us there! It was fantastic, i had planned everything out, from checking flights and hotels and tours and attractions, i remember specifically, a group tour for the tower of london how it was pretty cool they gave childrens concession prices to those 15 and under. and group tours were even cheaper. I remember thinking oh wow we can go see the globe theatre(not the original of course) and it would be linked to what we're studying! ...so i had everything written down, but i just didnt have the guts to submit that proposal... partly cause i knew it would never happen. Then i floated through the rest of my life and ended up in junior college, where i finally found the confidence to do art. it felt good, like i was finally doing something that meant something to me. The more i did it the more it occured to me what i wanted to do and where i wanted to go.

All that talk to various listeners about how i want to go somewhere for a while, do this and that, exciting stuff, see the world and have fun doing it, and making them promise we'd actually be there one day... i meant all of that, every word.

So I promise you i'm leaving... but i promise you, i'll be back.

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