We’ve had a lovely weather day for our
return to normal school now that our mid-term exams are done with for another
year.
While I’m on that thought train; I should
mention that our school curriculum and schedule are different than most schools
in our area – and pretty much any school when compared to the standard,
two-semester system. Having six classes
and a two-day rotation that makes room for up to twelve subjects in high school
is different too. We do, however, exceed
State academic minimums by quite a bit; so that isn’t a problem. The reason I mention it is because Michael,
Tim, Rowen, and I talked with some students from the school that Rebecca and
the girls’ basketball team played against today while we were watching the
game; and they thought that our set-up here was weird. Maybe it is compared to only having four
classes per semester and being done with those subjects after only five months;
but I like what we do better. We also
probably have less need for past-year review compared to students that go seven
months between levels of each subject – especially for subjects like math and
science.
I know, that little side-trip might be
totally useless information, but that might not be the case further into the
future; so I’m including it with a thought toward the more distant future. The fact that we have a broader, more
thorough education for our kids is a good thing; and could have a lot to do
with why we have a very high percentage of college graduates here compared to the
national average.
Moving along, the main news from school
today was the start of new modules in every class; and we had new projects
assigned along with the regular homework.
That was mostly fun; and then catching Rebecca’s game after school was
good too. Our team won the game, and
they’re having a fairly good season; but they won’t be a championship contender
despite having Carolyn on the team – and she is pretty good. Catching another game was great, but it was
also one more thing on my too-busy schedule that meant trading that play time
for a later study session and I’ve needed to stay up even later tonight to get
all of my work and studies finished.
By the time the game was over, it was time
for Michael, Rebecca, and I to get to their house for dinner; we had fun doing
that with Miranda and Jacob; cleaned up; and then did our homework after
that. Mom and Dad were hosting a family
business and future plans meeting tonight too; so I needed to get home once
Michael and I had finished our assignments.
We had the usual gang there for that; though Grandma and Grandpa were
too busy having fun in Argentina to join us for it – even by video chat or
phone call. We wouldn’t actually do that
for these meetings anyway without extra system security to do that with certain
privacy; but we mostly didn’t talk with them today because they were busy with
a travel day.
The major highlights from our meeting
included updates on the clinic; Solar-Wind Farm project; plans for the
apartment buildings and new housing; and other side-projects including plans
for the Inn and KidZone. The interior
work at the clinic is ahead of schedule thanks to the mild weather and total
lack of snowstorms so far to slow down work or materials transportation. Ditto that for the apartment building that is
under construction right now; and the winter house-building projects are ahead
of schedule too. The Solar-Wind farm
work is moving along well thanks to the warmer weather days as well; though we’re
still looking at a late-summer launch for having the power production hit the
grid.
Mom and Aunt Leanne expect that Miranda and
Jacob will have a deal done with Uncle Nick’s father to buy the Haberdashery
building by late May, and if that works out; they’ll start a remodel and
expansion of the Inn that will have the Inn basically doubling in size starting
in early September. Miranda’s working up
that plan, and while they’re thinking about a future with Jake and Stephanie
working there too; it’s also being done to gear up for being busier thanks to
everything else that’s going to be happening around here over the next decade
or two. On the KidZone front, Aunt
Leanne expects to have a deal done fairly soon for them to take over the old
clinic once the new med center opens up at the end of June. The clinic will need a major remodel first;
but Aunt Leanne expects the daycare to be in there and ready to operate in time
for the next school year in September.
The kids won’t know about that for a while, but the owners and staff are
apparently very excited about it – and because they’ll have the space to take
on more kids than they can right now.
There was a lot more that we covered,
including more plans for college-bound teens and career opportunities for the
upcoming graduating class. We’ll need to
keep doing that for years and maybe decades to come; but I’m not going into any
details tonight – I’m just too tired to write up a major future plans report
tonight.
My future, in the very near term, is going
to feature a couple of hours of down time.
I’m going to need it too, since we’ll be
back to band and praise team practices tomorrow; and then I’ll be trying to get
all of my work done after another day with too much going on for the number of
hours available to get everything done.
That won’t keep me from finding a way to do it all anyway, but it does
mean that I’ve had enough for today and I’m ready to get on with my nap; so,
until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
