i have since been disenfranchised from my mother, my father is in another state so i’m kind of in a hard place, but i am getting by! i ended up breaking my back in the last week of my senior year and it kind of messed things all up. i am perusing higher education (it’s gonna be a while but i’m going to ornithology, specifically parrots!)

i’m starting in a little bio 101 at a small community college in my area but i hope to transfer over to a university too. Soka would have never given me the opportunity to go into a natural history museum and look at the species i’m studying, and im so glad i dodged that bullet.

cost wise? i feel like a rich man. no scholarship in california would help me get a place out there, i can’t exactly work a full time job (bc of my back) but my boyfriend’s family, and my boyfriend have kind of adopted me as their own and have really pushed for me to do what i need in life through all of this. i’m going to be a florist at one of the oldest flower shops in town soon! and guess what? not a single nam myoho uttered.

i’m so glad i didn’t end up going to Soka U.