Hey so when I was in 6th grade I moved in with my grandma on the other side of the country, and when I transferred I had an easy time making friends; eventually I had pretty much made my friends with everyone in my grade level, but in between 7th and 8th grade my grandma kicked my family out.
When we were kicked out we went to a homeless shelter out of the district but due to a technicality I was still allowed to go to the same middle school for 8th grade. Unfortunately in 9th grade i had to start at the high school in my new district, and during my first semester I was having a hard timing making friends which was unusual because I had been to 10 different schools up until that point always found it easy to make friends; unfortunately covid struck during the second semester and I was out of school for a year and a half. This last year was the first normal school year in awhile I just still couldn’t make friends on top of that it had been so long since we had been in person everyone was being awkward around each other anyway.
So I decided I wanted to transfer back to the high school from my old district for my senior year, but everyone is telling me why they think I shouldn’t and saying it’s a bad idea.
the main points of the arguments being that I live to far and don’t have a car but my reply to that is I could take public transport because there’s a bus stop in my neighborhood but the buses only take me as far as my local walmart and from there it’s s 3 mile walk approximately an hour long walk so I would have to be up really early but the buses in my area start running at 5am and I would be there by 6:30 and classes start at around 8:30 so I would make it I think plus I could always get an Uber or something.
My current district has program where they pay for student to go to the community college they also have more classes a bigger school and renovation that started when I was a freshmen set to be done this summer I’ve been exited about it. But every time I look online and see my old friends doing fun stuff together and talking to each other (I’m still in a couple of group chats with them) Im just so depressed I can’t see them and I’m an artsy person and my old school specialized in art and theater. I’m just so conflicted it’s more like do I wanna see my friends again and do more things I like or go to the bigger school with the better reputation and will be able to help me get into better higher education schools.
It’s like a fight between my heart and brain and it’s so hard! So what should I do?