What was your excuse for going abroad?

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Hey guys,
I am planning on doing LL exactly 13 months from now. I have my money saved up. I am just waiting to graduate university. I live with my brothers and sister and my parents live abroad, however we keep in touch constantly through Skype etc. My question to you Is what do I tell my parents when I go abroad to do LL. I am planning to say I am travelling but i dont know if it wiLL work out. What did you vets do?

Ps I will be telling my brother the truth that's it.

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I was thinking of using backpacking. The problem is I will have to send them lots of pictures and tell lots of stories and when I am in frames I don't know how creative I will be. I feel like I will run out of things to say.

Patient study abroad.  That will not fly at all with my parents.

Neither will working in a restaurant abroad while visiting friends considering the degree I am about to get and past work experience I have.

I m stuck :/

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Hello femoral. I am quite young actually and I feel I could get away with the late growth spurt card. Also I plan on telling one of my family member before i go incase at any point i need help. Even if my whole family found out, they would only be concerned about me and would not mock me. The reason I can not tell them and must avoid all suspicon before surgury is because they wiLL try to stop me. I would end up leaving regardless and I know I would be emotionally strained throughout the whole journey then because of them.

Chinese guy your a genius. I think I found my reason along with backpacking. No pictures for a while because I am in the same city  learning a new language. Not bad at all.