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Should I move to Tokyo at 18 ?

Id never imagined to be in this situation two years till i was no longer the fat girl and got model scouted working in Claire's. At first i was very shy and went bright red when my now agent approached me because id never considered myself the model type as im a lot smaller than your average model in hight.

My friends insisted i went ahead with it so i showed up to her office. Had a couple head shots and at first i was getting very small jobs whilst still having my regular job.

My friends said id get more work if i got on instrgram so i did and before i knew it i was getting all sorts of offers to make money.

A year on my agency sent me to Russia during the summer to do some work. I hated it so much. I was sharing a small apartment two other girls who didn't speak my language and we lived off cereal for 2 months. One day a designer took a shining to me at a casting, i was told she thought i was very cute and wanted me to be the face of her new collection and i was told to meet her and her assistant at hotel the next day.

I was super nervous about getting there but luckily my agency got me a taxi. When i got in the taxi there was a special box for me in there with a leather bag, the cutest fur coat and boots inside, i was so excited id never been gifted anything like that before.

When i turned up I went to reception and the staff were very rude to me, which made me even more scared and nervous. I just ended up wondering around reception till i found a door with the the designers name on. I walked through the door and there was a lady sitting at a table. I Introduce myself and she was also rude and start talking a load of random languages at me. I didn't know what to do so i just tried to speak the only Russian i could. Till a young women came running to me laughing and said "it's you come sit and talk with me"
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She was super nice to me and told me she was the designer. She was very maternal with me which was something i really needed as i was missing my mum like crazy. She got me into hair and makeup and we got talking loads. I had so much fun that day and we started working together from their on in my home country.
Now she wants me to move to Japan once i turn 18 to help her lurch her brand over there and do some promo work.

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Last time i was away from home i hated it so much and i regretted ever going Russian so im really scared of going Japan. Im just a big baby really and i wish my mum was there with me but she can't. I cried every night for my mum last time and barely slept.
Should I move to Tokyo at 18 ?
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