AchillesLast
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Hey. So this has really been getting me down and I am just looking for some advice.
Long story short, my steady girlfriend and I were going to study abroad in Italy this spring semester. We have been talking about it for the last year. I have been moderately excited. I was more or else excited to fulfill this dream with my girlfriend who has wanted this like here entire life.
Well tonight, we started to sit down and plan our flight to Europe. This got my parents and I wondering what the other expenses of this were for the semester. Granted, we had done *some* research before we chose studying abroad, however we realized tonight that the program was going to cost around $13,000. We had originally been given a ball park of $8,000.
I have around $18,000 saved up for all of college expenses. I was planning on using this money to studying abroad, however I am not very excited about spending $13,000 on schooling. Mainly because I have been looking forward to saving this money for after college to spend and live nicely with while I work etc.
Since last semester, I have been struggling with how badly I want this Italy trip and I have almost been wanting something to show me a sign on what I should do. Today, when I read how much I was going to have to spend, I felt that that was my sign to not go because this would only leave me with $5,000 or so to pay for the rest of college. This was not going to happen. However, you can imagine the turmoil this caused my girlfriend.
I do not want to be the reason for taking this trip away from her, but on the same token if she goes without me, we will have to break up without any garuntee of reconciling after Italy. She is an amazing girl and I do not want to let her down, but I feel like we have 2 different priorities at this point in our lives. Honestly, I would like to stay here, save my money, finish college, grow some pot and start living my life. She would like to study abroad no matter what the expense. But we are both stuck because we care too much about eachother to let go.
I just don't know what to do. I technically have the money, but do I want to spend that all right now to go to Europe or should I wait it out stateside and see how it goes when she comes back?
Anyway, sorry for the long post but i was just looking for someone to talk to about it.
Peace
Long story short, my steady girlfriend and I were going to study abroad in Italy this spring semester. We have been talking about it for the last year. I have been moderately excited. I was more or else excited to fulfill this dream with my girlfriend who has wanted this like here entire life.
Well tonight, we started to sit down and plan our flight to Europe. This got my parents and I wondering what the other expenses of this were for the semester. Granted, we had done *some* research before we chose studying abroad, however we realized tonight that the program was going to cost around $13,000. We had originally been given a ball park of $8,000.
I have around $18,000 saved up for all of college expenses. I was planning on using this money to studying abroad, however I am not very excited about spending $13,000 on schooling. Mainly because I have been looking forward to saving this money for after college to spend and live nicely with while I work etc.
Since last semester, I have been struggling with how badly I want this Italy trip and I have almost been wanting something to show me a sign on what I should do. Today, when I read how much I was going to have to spend, I felt that that was my sign to not go because this would only leave me with $5,000 or so to pay for the rest of college. This was not going to happen. However, you can imagine the turmoil this caused my girlfriend.
I do not want to be the reason for taking this trip away from her, but on the same token if she goes without me, we will have to break up without any garuntee of reconciling after Italy. She is an amazing girl and I do not want to let her down, but I feel like we have 2 different priorities at this point in our lives. Honestly, I would like to stay here, save my money, finish college, grow some pot and start living my life. She would like to study abroad no matter what the expense. But we are both stuck because we care too much about eachother to let go.
I just don't know what to do. I technically have the money, but do I want to spend that all right now to go to Europe or should I wait it out stateside and see how it goes when she comes back?
Anyway, sorry for the long post but i was just looking for someone to talk to about it.
Peace
) and I also came to the conclusion to study abroad with my girlfriend. She's really important to me and I think take advantage of this opportunity now is the way to go.