Ok i just want you to know that this is a really big thing going on for me so i would appreciate if you would bare with me and read it all, thank you.
The begging
About half a year ago my dad was sent to the Philippines to help build a school in the slumps for poor people and he had a great time. Then a few months on (after my dad came back) my mum went over for a month to do work there (not construction but organization and stuff)
They both had a good time in the dumps.
I have been going to a very expensive school for the last 3 years and it has taken a giant cut off our families budget, which is not a large one. I have known for a long time that at the end of this year i would have to change schools, of course i didn't want this because i would be leaving all my friends behind but at least my girlfriend said she would stick with me and come to my new school.
Around 3 months ago
My parents started saying how great it would be to move to the Philippines for a whole year (2012) and wouldn't shut up about it.
A while after they started organizing it! I kept expressing how it is complete bullstuff and that i do not want to leave my friends and girlfriend
for an entire year to go live in a hut in another country. They didn't care.
My parents started saying how if we went to the Philippines for a year (even though we would be getting no income and losing money) somehow when i came back i would be able to go to my old school again, even though all my friends, by then, have forgotten me.
Now
They wont stop! Ever single sentence they say has something to do with the loving Philippines! Eg. we eat some meal
with rice and my parents are like "Stephen do you like your food?" or something and id say "yeah it tastes nice" then as usual "well then
you will love the Philippines because we will be eating this every day!" D:<
Every god damn thing they say is about the Philippines and im so sick of it. No matter how many times i tell them i will not leave everything for a year and have all my friends and relationships just tossed out the window by my parents just so i can have a loving miserable time living in a hut with nothing but two beds and a computer. Also did i mention that the only internet access we will have is for me to do online schooling? Nothing else, no facebook, skype or any other way of communicating with my friends.
My parents were pretending to give me the option of changing schools for the next two years or going away and doing online schooling for one and then coming back to the same school, i obviously chose to change schools but they decided we are going anyway.
I have been telling my parents for months now how these are some of the most important years of my life and that i need to be here with friends learning new experiences and preparing myself for adulthood but they are hellbent on making me go to the philippines and wont take no for an answer. I have told them to wait until i move out of home for them to go but frankly even i know it would be hard. My parents are very old, my father is nearly 60 and my mother nearly 50 so we all know that they are running out of time to do the things they want.
I also have other brothers and sisters that have already moved out that are staying in Australia who i would be able to stay with and have expressed that they get to stay and that it is complete bullstuff for me to be forced to leave everything i have to go live in a stuffville. Even my siblings have tried to side with me so that we either don't go at all or wait until i move out but my parents seem to
have this little obsession with destroying my life. I have told them that if we went for say 3 months i would just shut up and deal with it but that is not enough for them.
Urgent need of assistance
About 2-3 days ago my parents informed me that within a week they will know whether we will be going or not and i need to convince them to drop it or leave me behind, they can go away and do what they want for a year but they are crazy if they think that i will be fine with it! I am running out of time and i really need a way to stop them!
What do i do? Try and force them not to take me away so i can stay with everything i have been working for or go with them because they are my parents and they are growing old?
I will be sending this entire post to my parents so they can see how i truly feel about the matter. (i will keep you informed of their actions)
Please give me ideas on how to convince them not to go through with this, just the thought of it has brought me to tears, even now as i type this out.
tl;dr- please just read it, this is very important to me.
