taking a year off after high school to travel?

"or in canada where i can go snowboarding and see how they live up there"

Canadians live pretty much the same way as Americans...

Anyways,

Make sure you know exactly how much it will cost you to take a few years off school. It's more than some people think. You might want to think about just finishing college, and then moving somewhere cool to work.

If all you really want to do is get out of the U.S., why not go to a Canadian college? Just a thought.

Maybe it would be better to just get college over with. The 1 or 2 years you take off could turn into 3, 4, etc.

First, as you said you'll need a passport. Get started on that *now* because it could take a few weeks or up to a couple of months depending on the work backlog of the state department. You can pay more for faster service, but you're on a limited budget. You have more time than money, so do this now.

Second, you'll need a visa stamp in your passport given to you by the country you want to enter. Every country's rules are different. You'll need to do some online research for the most up to date information.

For each country, get information and rules on their tourist visa, student visa, and work visa. A tourist visa is typically the easiest to get, but have shorter time limits. If you want to study while you're there, you'll need a student visa. If you want to work while you're there, you'll need some kind of work visa. Those can extend your stay a lot longer but are more difficult to get. Unless you're sponsored by an employer and get yourself thru a lengthy application process, most countries won't let you work (legally) while you're there, and your $3k won't last long.

The easiest example is a tourist visa into Canada. You basically go to Canada and you can get a visa at the airport when you land. Many other countries let you do this too: UK, EU countries, Australia/NZ, etc.

What can be more difficult is that some countries require you to get with their consulate here in the US to get a visa before you even leave the US (India, China). If you don't have a visa, you cannot get past Passport Control and you'll have to fly home.

Welp, I do not know approximately what to do in Boston, however I do recognise that nothings unsuitable with taking a holiday from crammin' her head with Math, English, Spanish, Science and so forth. So suppose unfastened to take that lengthy deserved excursion. Now you'll be able to have time to take that unfastened Underwater Basket Weaving magnificence givin on the neighborhood neighborhood middle that used to be one yer record of Fun matters to do. But stay up for splinters. Even if the reeds are rainy, their nonetheless harmful lit'l buggers! I made a wicker elephant gambling the Tuba! LOL See if yha went immediately to tuition, yha should not have time to play Bingo with Aunt Lola, or Horseshoe's with Uncle Fred! Now's the time to bond with yer household a bit of. Though if knitting a red PONCHO with grandma does not sound like a Weeeee-Haaaa time, re-organize your bed room furnishings and arrange it and do away with all yer socks with holes in them Remember You've acquired the leisure of yer existence to be taught what folks will inform you, you HAVE TO LEARN (positioned your #two pencils down, the experiment is over now). Take this time for you. So, seem to your neighborhood wooded discipline and begin taking a few binoculars with you and a tremendous mouth water bottle with you and pass admire the cosmetic of birds and opt for a few lovely wild plant life (that is what the bottle's for! Plus when you wish a sip of water.) Then whilst you come again out of your stress-free day in nature, supply your mother the plant life for Mother's Day. And Bet yha 1 greenbacks, she's certainly not had a bouquet of the ones plant life earlier than! (Even extra specified) Take care and well good fortune on yer quest for schooling!! LadyLaughAlot aka Smileycat : )