This year I have a 10th and 11th grader. Ada has early morning seminary, and Sam has early morning jazz band, so they drive the van to and from school. They leave about 6:15am and get home about 4pm. It works out to not have the van especially because both Jer and I work from home.
Ada is taking ASL, Guitar, Welding, Calculus BC, AP Lang, her internship and Seminary. She's the Co-President of the FBLA club this year.
Sam is taking Jazz, Wind Symphony, Japanese, AP Euro History, Seminary and the like. He qualified for the 6th place in the Esports club. The top 9 ranking players compete with other clubs from other schools. He's pretty excited and I'm pretty sure that 6th place puts him on the JV team. Sam grew 4 inches in the last month.
Ada is one of 3 students from her high school that got accepted to do an internship with the fire department. So far, they've gone over CPR (which she's now down 3 times), strapping people to gurnie's, EMS bags, and yesterday she learned how to connect a firehose to a fire hydrant with the whole gear on. She said it was hard to do with her gloves on, but she didn't notice when the second person holding the hose let go. (She's a pretty strong girl and I love it.) Eventually she will be going on ride-alongs in the fire truck. Yesterday, my good friend was in a car accident and her station was the one that sent the crew out to the accident scene. Luckily my friend was okay, just her car that is not and she didn't have her kids in the car.... thank goodness. I went and picked her up with the stuff out of her car and she got busy with the insurance while I picked up our boys and then our girls from their activities.
Seth is starting his 5th grade year. He has a brand-new teacher that he says is doing a great job. He likes her because she likes Gravity Falls just like him. He has some of his friends in his class. Him and Zeke saw that there was a new boy in their school, and they moved all their stuff next to his seat so that he wouldn't have to sit alone. Zeke's grandpa lived in Ethiopia with my dad, so that's a fun connection.
Evelyn just started 8th grade. She's also grown several inches. It's fun to see her and Sam play height tag. She's taking Spanish, CTE (home ec), Orchestra, etc... She took two PE classes last year, so she didn't have one on her schedule this year. She is taking ballroom dance with her friend, Rose, after school and loves it.
It's looking like a fun school year and so far, everyone is happy. Sam is going on a trip with my brother and sister soon, so he'll have some catch up to do when he gets home, but he'll do marvelously.
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