I really want to study abroad sometime during high school. I’m now finishing up freshman year, with little time to get ready to leave for sophomore year, so I suppose I can only do it junior or senior year.

I want to be able to understand the language of the country I go to so I can get good grades and appreciate my time there instead of just being confused. At this point I think I will only know English and Japanese kind of fluently by senior year. Since one of the best parts of studying abroad is immersion for language learning, I’d like to go to Japan.

If I end up running out of time before I can convince my parents to let me go, I guess I’ll just try in college, but that’s worst-case scenario.

Any suggestions for my goal? :)
(If I can I’d like to do this through Rotary. I’d have to start planning really soon though if I want to go junior year)