Im a 15 years old girl. I wanna go to japan for a year in school (im 17 then, cause the school starts in april right?). I wanna go after i get out of "folkeskolen". The school you are in before you go to a "gymnasium" in three years. But i wanna go to japan a year before i start on a Gymnasium. My question is, is it worth it? Cause im gonna be much older than my classmates when i get back, cause here the school starts in august. So when i go out at school in july, and would have started at gymnasium in august, i have to hold a break from school until april, with NOTHING to do in almost a year?! and then when i get back from japan, i will go out in april to and have to wait until august so i can start at Gymnasium. because of these difference i will be around 3 years older than my classmates!:- ( So i want to know, is it worth it? japanese school is my dream, i so wanna go there. But the thought of being so much older than my classmates is HORRIBLE:- //
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Asking other Germans around you what they think about starting a Gymnasium three years later than the other students is the fastest way to know how you would be seen by others. At least no Japanese person knows what it is like to be a few years behind the other students in a Gymnaisum. In Japan many students start their undergraduate studies when they're a bit older than the usual age when people start to study at uni, but such thing is very rare in high school. I think you would be ridiculed and feel isolated if you were older than the other students in the same class in high school. I'm totally unaware of what it's like down in your country.
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I think you better look for an exchange program which will let you stay in Japan without worrying about your school schedule, maybe for months, not 1 year. And you can't join a Japanese high school without taking and passing its exams. It's not so easy.
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