Interviews/visiting - my parents think it's impractical?

bshopeful
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:06:14 +0000

My dad’s never home because he works (for the most part) out of state and can’t really take leave between now and January. He might be able to, if I’m really, extremely, incredibly lucky.
Well, my mother has a whole slew of excuses, why we should not do this. “I don’t like to drive in the dark” seems to be her favorite. And while she supports me with the applications, when it comes to the visits and interviews, she just does not get the importance of them. In fact, I don’t think she gets the importance of boarding school to me, period.
She said the two schools closest, about 3 or 4 hours away, to home will be do-able (but apparently still “hard”) in January.
I might think about asking her about my uncle taking me since he lives close-ish to EHS and Mburg. But I really and truly fell in love with Westminster and Millbrook and it would be a shame to not get in because she “doesn’t wanna drive in the dark” or thinks she’ll be stressed out.
Talking to her about this whole thing is always hard, but I have to. I just wish she were one of those parents that were like “YOU ARE GOING TO BS. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. I’M DRAGGING YOU TO INTERVIEWS.” Some kids get all the luck.