May 22, 2007

• Things are winding down at the girl's school with just two and a half weeks left of the year. They are already half into summer-mode and luckily, the worst of the homework and projects finally seem behind us. This week Becca was finishing up a multi-phase state report and will be giving her verbal presentation this week. Another part of the project was to make a mini-float (no bigger than 20x20x15 inches) to represent her state. Since she is doing Wyoming, she decided to do Devil's Tower. She originally wanted to do Old Faithful, trying to talk me into rigging up something with water and dry ice so it would 'erupt' and I told her it would just be too hard. In the end, Devil's Tower was more than enough work, but gave me giggly flashbacks to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (If you have not seen that movie, this just won't make sense to you, sorry!). So, without further ado, here is the finished project. I had fun being handi-mom and doing all the woodwork for the base and attaching skateboard wheels so it would roll.

  

  In other news, we were very happy to find that we got both of the school requests we made for the girls for next year. Being in a new housing development, they have been busy making a new elementary school for all the new kids in the area. So the school the girls were at this year, was not supposed to be the official school for our neighborhood. However, their current school is the best academically in the area and both girls have done really well with the high expectations. Becca moves on to middle school next year, but Megan has two more years of elementary school, so we hoped to keep her at this school, rather than move her to the new one next year. Besides that, this is already her third elementary school, do to district shuffling in the old school district, she needs some stability! But, a lot of other parents wanted to keep their kids at this school too, because it is so good academically, so there was a long list of hopeful parents. I wrote a long letter to go with Megan's application and I think that made the difference. She gets to stay at this school for the rest of elementary! Hurray!

  Meanwhile, Becca was supposed to attend a middle school that is closer to our house, but the majority of her friends from elementary will be moving on to a middle school that is slightly further away. So she asked us to see if she could go there as well, so she would know people. That request was also approved and she is very excited. Her boy, who is a friend, Josh, will be going, which I think was her biggest reason to go there. Ahh, young love..err, wait, they are just friends. Right. Friends. Speaking of Josh, Becca has been bummed, he has not been in school the last two days, due to asthma.

  You know, I felt I grew up in a fairly high tech time period while in school and collage, but I felt down right old today when Becca announced she needed a flash drive so she could move school work between the house and school computers! And the other day, I was helping her write a bibliography and I had to look up how to site sources from the internet and CDs. 

  [said in old lady voice] "And there were no VCRs, you just had to wait for a movie to be on TV, Speaking of TV, we got 4 channels, that was it. There wasn't such a thing as cable! And music was on vinyl records...."

  Anyhow, our friend Mel arrives late Friday. Hopefully this visit will go better than last time, when she had to just go straight home the next day because of her father's health. I also hope we get some sun before then, it has been grey and cloudy for the last week, above and beyond the typical May Gray you see in Southern California.

  Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend!

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