Now that is over, here comes a new era!

So, I did it. I got through the 8th-grade exam, but the grades I got weren't exactly as expected. Like, I got 7.20 in Romanian and 8.65 in mathematics. I think you can very clearly see that I did much better in math compared to Romanian, which in my opinion is strange, since it has been "scientifically" demonstrated (by myself) that usually I get a higher grade in Romanian than math. But, I guess this was a strange situation.

Either way, I am more than pleased with my results, since they are higher than what I was expecting (especially in math, because as for Romanian... I don't even want to talk about it).

Now there's still a big step that I need to take to be done with all of this school stuff, and that is picking a high school! Now the problem here is that at the middle school I attended (and I still am there to some extent right now), I've made some promises, some big ones in my opinion. For example, one of them was to a retired teacher, promising that I would help him with the school's theater stage. Now, while dodging such promises might seem like an easy dodge to some, unfortunately, I have something called empathy, which is kind of holding me back from leaving. Besides that, I also have another stupid fear about leaving, and that is abandoning the friend that I've made along the way. But at the same time, I realize that I can still communicate with him even if we aren't in the same classroom, so that fear is completely unjustified. So, I guess it's more of a F.O.M.O. (fear of missing out) than an actual fear.

Now, which high school do I actually want? Well, because I want to go to a pretty beefy university in Amsterdam. Yeah, I really want to leave Romania and everything related to it behind eventually, because I really want to move to The Netherlands. Which in my opinion is a better-off country than Romania in all fields.

Anyways!

So, basically I want to do much better in life, and the profile that my middle school offers is a humanities/philosophy one, which is not recommended by the university I want to eventually get into. Instead, the university recommends a mathematics/computer science profile, which is essentially non-existent at my current school. And that means that if I want to follow my dream, I will need to change schools. Now sadly, I don't know which one I should apply to yet, but I will discuss that with my mom in the days that follow.

As for how long this process will take, well, it depends. If I choose to remain at the high school my middle school is offering, I would be done by the 10th of July. But if I choose not to, then say goodbye to half of my summer break! Since the bureaucracy in Romania is so bad, I need to basically wait another month until I find out if I was accepted into the high school or not.

I will make sure to post an update once I get into a high school, but I will not say the name of it for privacy reasons. But until then, I hope you're having a wonderful summer wherever you are!