switching schools and wanting to punch a horse

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I don't really want to punch a horse. I love horses. My friend just always wants to punch a horse, so I felt randomly impelled to use that phrase.

Anyway
Due to bankruptcy, my mom and I have to move in with family, and we're going to move in with my aunt who lives even closer to my school than I live right now, but she's not in the school zone for it.
My parents are going to ask the school if I can stay anyway, but I'll probably have to switch to the new school anyway.
I have never had to switch to a new school except for going from elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school.
I don't want to switch schools. I worked for years to find friends, and I don't want to start over.
What do I do to make friends at the new school? Another thing is I'm currently in a marching band of 247 people, and their marching band it TINY and it makes me mad.

First let me whip this out...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws[/youtube]

With THAT bit o'nonsense out of the way ...

It sucks to have to move. It sucks worse due to bankruptcy. It sucks even more to have to switch to a smaller school, leave friends behind, and have to make a new start in a new social order.

I don't know what to tell you, other than maybe you could really shine in a smaller school, especially in a smaller music department. With 247 other people around you, it is hard to stand out; but with only 49* other people, your ability to harmonise and get along with others may actually help you overcome your newness and make better friends than before.

Whatever the outcome, just do your best. Maybe you could start an ensemble group ... ?

(*49 is a wild guess.)

I hope you could keep in contact with your boyfriend.

Can you push your existing school to keep you there as a student, based on your AS diagnosis, which would be a detriment to your having to change schools?

I asked my dad what he's going to say to the people when he tries to keep me in my current school, and he said he didn't know, so I don't know what he's going to say. Right now I'm basically just waiting to get kicked out of our house. I don't get to know when we're leaving. I haven't gotten to see what my family's house that I'll stay at looks like. I don't know if I'll get to stay at my school or not. I don't know if the new school with have all the French classes I want to take. I don't know what stuff I'll get to take with me. I don't know how long my mom and I will stay in my family's house. Nobody tells me anything. It was worse before though, because I was told we were leaving the state and I'd have to share a room with my mom. That was quite a bit more horrific.

I'm not from the US so I don't really understand the school disctrict stuff (here you can just go to any school you want), but maybe you could make a case with your AS diagnosis? That it would be better for you to stay at your current school since all these changes suck for AS people. Maybe ask on the Parents subforum here, there are probably people there who know more about how the system works and what you can do.

You don't mention what year you are in school, but I am wondering if you are close enough with any of your friends for them to allow you to live with them to finish out the school year? Just a thought.

My mom says that I can already finish out the school year when we move, because we can easily just not tell them we moved, and my mom can still take me to school then. It's just that at the beginning of a new school year, they will make us put down our address on forms. I am a freshman in high school.