When I was in high school, some of my older friends left the country to study overseas upon graduation. One of them who left was a really good friend my brother. In that time, it was hard to have new friends because friends go to high school coming from middle school, as packages. By this I mean making friends starts with elementary school, goes to middle school, but by high school students like to stay with the same group of friends rather than making new friends. So, I faced a hard time to throw myself into a new group of friends even though I am a very social person. I began hating the idea of studying outside the country, so I made my decision to not study overseas. I was not a grown kid, so I was not the one who made this decision, it was my emotions that took over my mind. After graduation from high school, I had about two to three weeks to make my final decision, to study abroad? Or at home? I decided to have discussion with my older brother who has a master degree in business and my older sister who is a math teacher in middle school. This was the turning point in my life. It was a very helpful meeting and they persuade me to study abroad. The secret of changing my mind was combination of my sister and brother meeting and the long private conversation that I had with myself. Basically, I changed my mind after I looked for the advantages and disadvantages. I found most of the disadvantages were based on my feelings and emotions. Google helped me too; I went through international students comments about their experience living in a new culture where people have different habits and hobbies. Almost all the comments were positive. Also, I tried to see myself in the future after deciding whether to go or stay. Then, I liked to see myself coming back home holding my certificate in my right hand full of pride, and all my family members, relatives and friends are waiting for me in the airport. Then, When they see me, they lift and thro