When I was 16 I had to choose which upper secondary school I wanted to go. Deep inside myself I wanted to just go to general school but all of my friends and everyone around me wanted me to go mercantile school, so I could use my creative side. They said that would be the best for me, so I ended up going there. But I slowly started to regret my choice. "I tried to find a plan B, but with no positive results I ended up skipping school a lot." Kinga, 20, Norway Finally I found

It all started when I had to go to a different school, in a new town, with lots of new people. It was a nightmare, really scary because I didn’t know anyone there, nor did I really want to be there at all. I had all my friends back home, where I belonged. A few weeks into the year, I still didn’t belong among any of the students/groups in my class, nobody bothered to talk to me, and I was too shy to talk myself. "Because of this I ditched classes a lot and didn’t do very we