college

col·lege/ˈkɒlɪdʒ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciatio–n

1.	an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training.

2.	a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree.

3.	an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university.

4.	an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.

5.	a similar corporation outside a university.

6.	the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education.

7.	the administrators, faculty, and students of a college.

8.	(in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school.

So next monday i start college.

well atleast thats what they call it in london. here is my current school situation. in london their highschool lasts till 10th grade. then they take their GCSE to get into college, which is for two years before you go to university. we didnt know that. we thought that college was equal to our 11th and 12th grades. evidently not. we were led to believe that till we applied at ealing college. there they asked for my highschool diploma. of course, i didnt have one. they wondered why and we showed them my grades were all A's and B's. "Oh. those are good." they said. but i still would need a diploma to be educated enough to do their AS/AS2 levels. (which is their college) so.. back to highschool? no, i cant do that because my grades are too good. what now? im stuck in the middle. go back to highschool and i repeat stuff i dont need or go to college where i cant even compare. luckily there was a GCSE resit program. where kids who didnt do well enough on their GCSE could redo a year of studying to get into college. they had two programs. one was science, and had biology, chemistry, physics, english, math, and ICT. the other was medai, and had humanities, media, photography, english, math, and something else i forget. i would like to get into art things, but since i am pretty much losing my junior year which ironicly is the most important year in highschool, i needed things to help me into college more than what i would like to get into. (since i can go into more artsy things in college back in america) my original plan anyway had been to go here for a year and then take my ACT and skip my senior year to go to college at ACU with my sister. so since i want into college and most the since i need are science related since i had all my history, i decided to go for the science GCSE. i had to test to see if i was ready to take the courses. now, chemistry i had last year.. i havent had biology because of the difference in school from WCCS and GCA and i would have taken physics this year if i had stayed at GCA. i had already taken the english and math tests and they said i did just wonderfully on both of them. now i had to test on two sciences i had never had before and one that i had had before, but was very hard either way. i took the tests and they came back and said i had passed. whew! i just took tests on two subjects i had never had before and PASSED! oh my. amazing. so im pretty sure God was working through all of this. :) not a doubt in my mind. since this course is only a one year thing then its pretty much mapped out ill be going to college next year. of course i still have to do good on my ACT and have ACU accept me. but im pretty sure if God made this london school work out, and he wants me to be at ACU, then ill do good and get accepted.
anyway. im going to college. how crazy? im stinkin nervous. therell be tons of kids there. i just dont know what to expect. but im sure ill do fine. i have a week break in october, which i plan to come back to indiana for. then i have a two week break in december and the browns will come over to england for christmas hopefully. i have a week break in february which i will probably just stay here for, then a two week break in april when i want to go back to indiana and maybe if the dates are right go to prom with wiley. :) but after that i only have two days off till july 3rd... crazy. but ill come back after july 3rd and probably leave for abilene around the 15 or 16 of august. whew! crazy. sadly im going to miss wileys graduation..
but hopefully this year will go fast and ill be home again.
there are moments when im in my room and i hear something outside and for a split second i feel like im back indiana again in our nice little house, but then i realize that im only in london.. an ocean away from my home.. i get so happy but the feeling is crushed.
i am doing much better about living here though. im getting used to it and ive accepted that i have to live here now. ive grown accostumed to it here. i still dont like it. i wont ever. i understand everything, that i have to stay here and i will make friends and will have a good time. i know all that. but i would rather be at home. i would rather be with the friends i already have. i know ill make friends, im not scared i wont. i will. but to only have then for a year? not even that much. thats hard. its almost pointless.. theyd be more like aquaintences. i want to visit home, but the lady said i shouldnt miss school. and anyway, with it being to expensive... its hard. i dont know. this is hard. but ill make it.