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paulwhere posted this
Good Storytelling - 20.04.2010
Hello from Tallahassee. Today I was rolling my head around the news that there’s a group of individuals who believe the notion that I’m making my entire story up. I’m not sure whether its the idea of hitch-hiking across the country, traveling with no money, dropping out of high school, or something else I’ve said I’m doing, or maybe some combination. My apologies, but I really am not that intelligent to fabricate such a comprehensive story. Hitch-hiking, couchsurfing, freeganism, networking incessantly? I couldn’t come up with a story like that. This is my daily life.
To clear up my travels so far, I’ve been to 3 different high schools in 3 different states. Freshman and sophomore year, I went to WHS in California. In between my transition to Arizona for my junior year, I had my Europe trip. My junior year was predominantly in Arizona at RSK, but after some issues I just moved to Florida, nearly 2 months before I finished that school year (talk about complications in transferring credits). Then my senior year was in MIHS, until I dropped out and started my life. Now I’m about 2 weeks into my journey, and crossing the border into Alabama tomorrow.
One of the major reasons I left high school was just the difficulties I had garnering enough credits to simply graduate. With all the switch-ups, I had to take 3 different exit exams, took so many superfluous courses, it was just a huge mess. I ended up going to school not just 30 hours a week during the day, but I had to take classes at night just to make up credits I required in Florida, but didn’t elsewhere. And for what ends? A diploma that MIGHT give me a shot into a university? I have better prospects just doing my own thing, kicking ass, and having the colleges look for me after I pilot my own success story.
No one else is going to live my dreams for me, so I must choose to live them. A very good chum of mine put it this way:
Well, no one has guts like you Paul. So whoever thinks you’re bullshitting will shit their pants when they see you in California soon.
-T. Dang
It’s not my intention to make anyone have untimely bowel movements, but at the very least I fully intend to drop some jaws in my adventure.
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