Life part 3

so i guess another big thing i should mention is that IM DRIVING NOW xD

which yeah is a cool thing ^^ .. but when it started, it also kinda felt like i've been waiting for it for so long that it just kinda got spoiled by them time it happened xD .. but it's ayt.. xD

thing is though, is that i'm only driving it till grandma gets back from the phils oct 31st.. after then, i'll prolly become hatid sundo again xD .. why? cuz of money xD .. gas, car insurance, and parking is definitely something i don't have money to shell out for right now xD .. just the parking permit alone is 55 bucks.. and that's only for one term....

and yeah sure, i know i'm working and making money and can use money from work to pay for that.. BUT, kinda how it is right now is that all the money from work, i have to set aside for next semester's tuition since i'm still paying out of state rates (which is x5 the in state rates.... yeah, i know.. ouch, right? xD ..)

and that's what leads to me discussing (mostly ranting xD ..) about how i've been worrying about my residency all this time on the side.. on top of being busy enough already...

i guess i'll start from quite an early stage of this whole thing and say that at one point, we thought i really couldn't get it anymore.. the residency, that is.. and that i would really have to pay out-of-state rates throughout my entire 4 years of college.. which is why i almost started going to school back sa pinas............ (as in, we even checked out ateneo, la salle, and UP and researched on how the transferring processes are and such..)

but it didn't happen (or at least, for this year..) cuz i had enough federal aid granted to me such that abot-kaya this semester and next semester..

so the plan became: go back to jax and finish this year at UNF .. try to get the residency and hopefully be able to continue... if not, pwedeng sa pinas, pwde reng d2 pa rin pero bengga sa utang.. pero when dad researched about becoming a doctor here sa states, having graduated from the philippines, is too hard to plan on doing.. so we kinda decided that it's best to at least get my bachelor's here so that i have the choice on whether i got to med school here or not... (and yeah, prolly a lot of you didn't know that i sorta decided on wanting to become a doctor already xD ..)


anyway, so what happened was that my aunt from new york so happened to know jim owen, who is the director of the student service office here at UNF, so she was able to talk to him and ask if there's anything that could be worked out for me.. (thanks Auntie Evan! ^^ ..)

so eventually (1st week of school i think it was...), i met jim owen and we talked about it..

that first meeting, meydo na confirm nga lng tlga na ndi ku tlga makukuha ung residency.. so he suggested to just go for federal scholarships next year.. BUT, for me to be eligible for those scholarships he pointed out, i have to be a technical juinor by fall next year.. which means, i'd have to take my summer semester here already, so as to have enough credits to be technically declared a junior... ultimately, that means...... can't go home this summer T_T T_T T_T

so at some point, we sorta just accepted that fact already, but again, because i was busy, was never able to announce that....

AWESOMELY THOUGH, the same week (i think it was just the next day nga lang e xD ..) .. i just so happened to pass by one stop (the student service place) to ask about a financial hold i had on my account and surprisingly, jim owen called me into his office, and only a day later from seeing him, here we are again xD ..

he researched and it turns out that if i can get legal papers declaring my uncle and aunt as legal guardian, i could finally get my residency reclassified and finally start paying in state stuition .. (YAY! xD ..)


so that's what i've sorta been on past week or two.. getting that guardianship.. thing is, is that i only have till my birthday next month to get it, so medyo time pressured.. hindi medyo... SOBRA xD ..

past couple of days, i've been calling family law firms in jacksonville asking whether majority of the lawyers think i have enough time to get the guardianship processed, and hoping to find someone who CAN do it within the fiven time frame...


so yeah, what kind of a freakin' 17 year old is is calling up lawyers up and working for his own tuition? xD .. me, i guess... but i'm prolly not alone....



anyway.. just had to get that out of me.. xD .. been really stressin' out over that recently cuz if i don't get it, it pretty much equates to about 20-25 THOUSAND DOLLARS more in tuition i have to pay to get through the rest of my 4 year college experience xD ..


yun lang nman i guess... that's pretty much how it's been lately.. that's life i suppose xD

gotta grab dinner and get back to studying xD .. later....