I don’t have a set ideal plan for the next twenty years, I plan to just travel, learn, have fun, and be happy.   It looks like I won’t be college for a while, I have a lot to sort through mentally as I have gone through a lot of family drama in the last couple of years and I have no idea what kind of job I would want or even what field I would want to major in. I like traveling, biology, cosmology, anthropology, Literature, German, Spanish, & mythology. So it is difficult to choose one thing that I would want to do for the rest of my life.
       My original intention was to attend Monterey Peninsula Community College for two years and then transfer to the University of my choice when I am ready to fully apply myself to what I want to study. I was badgered into taking the SAT by the staff at ACLC even though I knew quite well that were huge gaps in my learning of math because some of the classes were given using only a computer program which gave me no clear understanding of t the beginning levels of algebra. Even though I received passing grades, even A’s and B’s in later math courses. I already knew I would have to retake those classes at the community college level for that reason. Had no preparation for the SAT and ACLC cancelled the SAT prep class so the pressure of a timed test on concepts I hadn’t learned properly resulted in a score only slightly above average. But that is not good enough to get into schools that I would be interested in attending. This is a disappointment of course, in the end though I learned to trust my own reasoning and intuition with matters that concern my own future.
       This summer, I will be going Salmon fishing down the coast of California with my dad who is a commercial fisherman. I will be his only deckhand, so I should be making good money. In August I plan on going to Germany to travel around, learn the language, and visit my Oma who I haven’t seen in 12 years. I don’t know how long I will be staying, but since I am a German citizen, I might stay for a while. After Germany, I will take another trip. I might live in Costa Rica, working with biologists as I can for a while or visit Thailand or Nepal to do similar things. I want to do what makes me happy. Eventually I think I will want to go to college, but until then I have way too much going on too even think about it.