My Life as a Wallflower: Oh, The Places I Wish I Could Go...

     Happy Monday! I hope you've had a good start to your week! My Monday went pretty well until rehearsal, when I literally stayed until 7 p.m. for no reason and I have so much homework. I'm not very impressed with my directors' organization skills. I probably could have left at 4:30 and I wouldn't have had to stress about getting my homework done! Anyway, while I'm worrying about trivial things like getting my reading for English done, I imagine myself in exotic places that I wish I could be in.
     For as long as I can remember, traveling has been my top priority for what I want to do with my life. As chance would have it, however, traveling the world happens to be a little expensive. I've only been to 11 states, and most of them for very short stays (Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, New Mexico, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Colorado). My mom was lucky enough to go to Japan as an AFS student when she was sixteen (paid for by her grandmother), and she went to Austria in college for an independent study. My dad has been to Germany two or three times to visit his German grandparents. Now where is my wealthy grandparent who can pay for me to go somewhere? I know I sound like a brat, but I will admit that I'm rather bitter that both of my parents got to go on several trips to countries around the world, and even though I would never tell my parents this, I wish they had found some way for me to be able to go somewhere. Unless you're like me, you can't possibly imagine how many hours I've devoted to planning out my trips across the world that will most likely never happen, imagining what foods I would eat, sights I would see, and things I would do. Sometimes I just look up pictures of cities and stare at them in awe.
     Perhaps I wouldn't be so bitter about it if I hadn't gone to a private school, where almost every one of my peers is in the 1%. Having to hear about my friends' latest travels after summer, winter, and spring breaks are always painful to listen to; Rome, Spain, Costa Rica, Belize, Australia, England, Germany, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and the Caribbean just to name a few of their family vacations. I've put a lot of thought into it, and if I could go to only five countries (even though I wish I could go to all of them) these are the ones I would go to:

1. Japan