why not this year?

You just have to be in any school. anything that is educating and not a job. (see here at "are only students from major...")
I´m doing my A-levels at the moment and will be at an university next year. I just had to contact the dreamspark support and they said me what to do to get into the dreamspark program.

thats strange, normally dreamspark is for everyone who is at school. just say that you are in a school that isn´t in the program and that you want to register you with the manual registration and what they need to register you. then they will ask for some things and you got your dreamspark account.

Personally, while it may not be a popular choice, I'd be excited about a transition to C++. At the end of the day, a major reason for the use of C#/Boo/Javascript is ease and speed of development. This is a loss, and there's no denying that. On the flip side, you'd be hard pressed as a game designer to find a way to nullify the potential performance gains from the switch to C++. C++ is at the base of pretty much every engine for a reason. It just works. I also think that once you can write good code in C++, you can write good code in pretty much anything. It gives you a sense of careful, organized code because of the fact that it doesn't offer some of the nice safety nets of the Object Oriented languages, such as automatic garbage collection and immutable operators. When you're forced to work around the "fun" pointers regularly or wonder if you've overloaded ever operator, it creates an attention to the smaller details of a larger system. People seem to give C++ a bad reputation because it's just not as pretty as the other girls. I know that the fake object orientation and Segfaults are a pain, but C++ will always be my main woman when it comes to anything I need to perform well. You could definitely do worse. Just my opinion, though.