Background: 17f starting college in Iowa in mid-August, looking for a good way of kind of creating personal growth(?) before starting. I know I'll want to be alone in this, without any family or friends with me. Currently, I have an arrangement with a friend who's older than me where I can stay at his then-empty condo halfway across the country on my own, but this friend is also known to be very unreliable, and I feel like I need a backup plan. By the time May ends and I can go I should have about $3,000 saved up from part-time jobs.
I'm really just looking for an experience to help me figure out who I am when it really is just me on my own, without any sort of pressure from people who know me as one thing. I don't really have any specific requirements for what this can/should be. I applied to work at various room/board places across the US, but either the work didn't fit with my time constraints or I was too young. I'd be open to doing farm work too. I'd like to go outside of the US but International flights would probably drain my savings pretty fast. I also only speak English, and while I'd love to become multi-lingual I'm not sure the pressure of immersion learning would go well with being on my own for the first time.
I also looked into doing homestays in the UK/CA they all seem to be short-term arrangements and not really something I'd be able to do. I'd be alright staying in the US too, but don't really want to stay in the mid-west, as I've lived in Iowa my whole life. Another thing is that while I'd be fine backpacking for a few months, my family is worried about not knowing where I am (I even have a tracker on my phone at the moment), so I'm not sure if that'd be ok with them.
Overall if anyone here has any recommendations or input for what I should do that'd be great. I don't think I've left anything significant out of this, and ANY recommendations are welcome! And if there's a better place to be asking this kind of thing, let me know and I'll go there.
Submitted March 17, 2020 at 11:49PM by WarmPlant https://ift.tt/2TW1pL8
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