お金がないから、日本へ行くのはちょっと。。。

Edit: I just went to the Study Abroad fair. It looks like the summer trip, all in all, is going to cost me (estimating high here) about $9,000.

The sentence above says “Because I don’t have money, I’m not so sure about going to Japan…” roughly translated.

The resources are at my disposal to obtain this money for just such an educational jaunt out of the country, I just need to apply like mad.

So, this is still the plan. My hurdles have become concrete, and so this makes me (1) no longer able to ignore their existence, and (2) more able to jump them.