Hi, hi... So, my one follower, today I'm gonna give you something new. Haha..
Anyway, just a few more months and I will be starting a whole new life in campus. Well, kinda.
So, although people kept saying, " Tio, enak banget si lu ke Amerika!" (which means, not literally, : How lucky you are to get to go America! ). Well, it's not that I don't appreciate this chance I've got, it's just that, I worked as hard as them to get into it. Just in a shorter length and more 'intense at the moment'-ish. (to get into my country's national universities, usually they take a certain lesson outside schools for a year, than take a test).
This is a piece of story related to that.
So, originally my plan was to get into a music school. But because of lack of preparation and lack of dicipline, it was too late for me to enter music application to some schools and I eventually sent applications for 7 general universities and 2 music schools.
To make things short, I was rejected by this one school.
The other school, well, I had an audition scheduled for late march(two days, thursday to friday), at Malaysia (I'm in Indonesia), but I finally didn't go to it because I was prohibited by my school.
My audition was scheduled at the same time my National Exams were scheduled. I was pretty confident in taking this audition because my National Exams (UN) schedule hadn't had exact dates until the last minute.
When I found out that both were scheduled at the same time, I was surprised. But the thing is, there is another week prepared for those who can't take exams at the National Exams week. So, I thought, ok. I'm gonna take that other week. I talked to my class guardian and my Mom talked to the school. At first they were like, okay, if this audition must be taken.
A few days latter, my guidance counselor (GS) went to me and told me I should reconsider. Her first genius opening lines were," I think you should reconsider going to the audition. What if the school doesn't want to give an explanatory letter to the UN committee?"
Boy, that got me swearing (not loudly, obviously). Then, she explained to me with her i-only-want-the-best-for-you tone, that the vice princpl. met the committee, who said the only reason for taking UN the other week is if a student is sick. My Mom went to the school again to talk to my principal. But through the conversation my principal just put on a tired look. At some time she asked my name, checked our try out scores, and let out a small laugh because my history score was still bad. Blegh. Then she explained about cases where some students were sick during UN and had to take UN in the other week. So my Mom was like," So, you're saying I should just say that my daughter is sick?"
"Oh, no it's not like that!" said my principal..
In some times after this I did more research and found out that a lot of this music school's pupils didn't graduate because they got a gig before graduating, some say this school is a place to find connections. I was looking for a campus with a university atmosphere. So I decided I wanted to go to a general university. But I still wanted to go to the audition, to check my talent and finish what I started.
Another few days (I know this is taking long, just hang on for a sec.), I was called outside my class when I was studying by my GS.
She asked about my desicion, do I choose to take the UN or not. And I was like, "what?"
"Yes, if you decided to go to the audition, than you can't graduate. If you decided otherwise, you can. But you can't take the UN from Monday than be absent at Thursday. You'll be considered not taking the UN."
Shoot. So I eventually gave up the audition.
I'm not mad about the fact that they wish I won't take the audition. It seems pretty reasonable. And I believe they'd never had my case. UN is a big thing.
Things that make me mad are:
1. They never show any support whatsoever in my interest to enter this music school or any concern regarding my not being able to go to the audition.
2. Giving me an ultimatum like I was some kind of, I don't know. But, obviously, not a student that they want to make sure will be able to follow her dream. Anyway, what kind of school gives it's students ultimatum?
3. If they really cared, they would have said maybe I can say that I'm sick. Instead, the principal was giving vague answers and my GS was giving me more pain than psychology healing.
4. There's a rumor, I think, that in the other week for sick people, usually the qeustions prepared are more difficult, and my school was all about being the best and keeping it's name clean and good.
There you have it. My beloved school. Lucky I'll be signing out of it and be signing in to a better place. Hmmm...
