Ok, so I was just kicked out of my boarding school, but that's another story and not what I need advice on. What I need help with is the next part of the story, what comes after. 

I need help with ideas on what to do next. My transcript will maintain my grades, and it only says I withdrew. For now, my parents have decided that I should still go to school for now (which I fully support), and the public schools in NoVA are actually fairly nice. 

What bothers me though is that I'm feeling this is the best opportunity i'll have to deviate from the typical life. I feel like this could be a time that I could really change my life and have a unique, real, and beautiful experience, as well as grow myself in ways that I could never by just going to high school. My parents are open to ideas, even bringing up the idea of immersing me into a different country, and then returning and getting my GED, but other than variations of that, i'm pretty much empty for ideas.

I can play guitar, I took two semesters of Linux, and can be resourceful and insightful IMHO. I just don't know where to start with looking for something.

So my question, redditors, Is what would you do? If you had this choice as a kid, what would you have tried for? I would really love to give my life some real meaning, and I hope that youse guise might have some ideas for me.
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I want to change my life,
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Ok, so I was just kicked out of my boarding school, but that's another story and not what I need advice on. What I need help with is the next part of the story, what comes after. 

I need help with ideas on what to do next. My transcript will maintain my grades, and it only says I withdrew. For now, my parents have decided that I should still go to school for now (which I fully support), and the public schools in NoVA are actually fairly nice. 

What bothers me though is that I'm feeling this is the best opportunity i'll have to deviate from the typical life. I feel like this could be a time that I could really change my life and have a unique, real, and beautiful experience, as well as grow myself in ways that I could never by just going to high school. My parents are open to ideas, even bringing up the idea of immersing me into a different country, and then returning and getting my GED, but other than variations of that, i'm pretty much empty for ideas.

I can play guitar, I took two semesters of Linux, and can be resourceful and insightful IMHO. I just don't know where to start with looking for something.

So my question, redditors, Is what would you do? If you had this choice as a kid, what would you have tried for? I would really love to give my life some real meaning, and I hope that youse guise might have some ideas for me.
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I'm 17, not sure what I
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