Australian or Russian school education? Please help.

[kkbeauty]

Now I am studying in Australian school, year 10. Everything seems to be good, but there are few problems that made me think about moving back to Russia and graduating from high school in Russia.
Here are the problems:
1) Russian school education seems to be harder and better, as everything that we studied in years 7-10 we started only now.
2) I am here alone,and have no one else by my side
3)I am planning on not going to university here, I think it'll be much better if I go to uni in the USA, England or somewhere in Europe. And if I do so I'll lose one year, as the year in Australia is opposite to the whole world.
4)If I graduate in Russia, I'll graduate next year, because we have only 11 years of education. But I'll still need to go to some English language courses before uni.
5)I am too homesick here, and next year I'll be 18 and I will have more freedom. In this school we are not allowed to go out for a long time and we have a lot of rules, so it feels like prison.

The problem is that my father spend a lot of money to send me to this school and I feel really bad about that, even that he says that it's not my problem. And also after graduating Australian school it may be easier to go to Uni in the US or the UK or Europe.

Well I would really appreciate if someone helped me with this situation. Please, help. I need to decide till the end of this month, earlier will be better. And please, without do whatever you think is right, because I really don't know what to do. Thank anyone who even reads it.

P.S. Sorry if i have some mistakes.

[boxtops]

I have no idea about either the Australian or Russian school systems, but your father must have had a particular reason for paying so much money to send you to school in Australia. I can tell you now, for a foreign student to take a place in a British university, it's extremely expensive - it costs thousands of pounds for students who are UK residents, it'll be even more for overseas students.

[pastafreak]

+1 for what boxy says...And-it would be even more costly to go to uni in the States.Several times the cost of English schools. But-if your father is wealthy-then cost may not be a factor. Then it's a matter of choosing what is best for you.

[argorstran]

Maybe there are some Russian Ex-Patriot organisations or a Russian Orthodox Church near to where you are in Australia ? If so this could help to ease your loneliness and homesickness . Good luck .

[FredPuli43]

You are homesick, as anyone would be. That is part, maybe most, of the reason for your thinking this way. People of your age in Britain get homesick when they are sent away to school, and that is when they are in their own country! It is not surprising that you are.

Every boarding school has rules and every one of them feels like prison ! That's life. But there are benefits, which you may not see yet, in being there.

Your father had good reason for sending you to an Australian school; he could have sent you anywhere in the world, but he chose that one. If Russia was better, he'd have sent you to school there. One reason, undoubtedly, is that you need to be in an English speaking country. He knows that mastery of the English language only comes with being in a place where only English is spoken. You do not yet have that mastery. Once achieved, it will last you the rest of your life. You want to go to university in the US or Britain. You will need to be perfectly fluent in English to study there. Staying in Australia will produce that fluency. English classes in Russia certainly will not: they are not 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no Russian spoken!

Do not worry about different systems of education; they are as good as each other. The US, for example, is slower than ours in Britain, in that their young people generally learn, in the first year at university, what we teach our students in their last years at school. The results are the same in the end. Russia's sounds closer to ours, Australia's closer to USA's.

My advice? Stay where you are!