Seasoned tofu, bean sprouts, fish oil, olive oil, all these are healing for a body and are new things we have included in our lives. Wal-Mart and community college=more new beginnings for our family. Dom is finishing up one of two summer sessions while I work at Wal-Mart for a bit. Dom made an 89 in his summer computer class, sixteen weeks in a usual semester crammed into five weeks during the summer, can you hack it? I chose not to. I didn't see enough personal benefit in it worth the stress it would cause our family (you know four kids and mom and dad) and beginning a new job. I prefer my journey to be in a classroom with actual people not people's virtual attitude transmitted to me via electronic mail. Dom felt disappointed for not achieving his goal of an "A" in the computer class. I reminded him of how many projects he did in such a short amount of time, his comment was, "ya, but one week I didn't even do any work..." I asked him if he felt he could have done better and he stated he could have if he had worked a bit more on the big project for which he earned a "B".
One thing I am certain of for my previous semester was that on my history final there were multiple correct answers to the multiple choice questions which would explain for me why I earned a high "B" as my final grade. I did not study many hours for the entire class. My history instructor was an older gentleman and always seemed as though he were truly trying to convey some deeper message to his class. I wrote down side notes which interested me and read up on those while I was not in class. I then passed on fun tidbits inspired by Mr. Tibbitts to my children. I enjoyed the class a great deal, as far as learning from it, I am not certain I learned much more in the actual class than I already knew. Learning for me really has to be something I personally want to learn about. I have no doubt in my mind that Mr. Tibbitts has a passion for history and would love nothing more than to pass on that passion to some pupils that gave a damn, but he has doubt that there is a pupil out there that gives a damn and for this, I am sorry.
Our kids enjoyed hearing about Teddy Roosevelt and the Japanese air raid. After the brief oral history Dom and I gave them we talked while we viewed Pearl Harbor and paused when Dom or I felt we needed to emphasize certain points about the actual history such as true facts regarding statistics. We are currently awaiting DVD's for the History Channel's America: The Story of Us. Dom and I figure we can use the DVD's as a starting point and reference the local library to delve deeper into subjects we want to learn more about together.
Dom and I both have a Government class coming up. Every person I have spoken with has had something to say about a local legend: Killer Miller. I am not sure this instructor even exists let alone instructs but everyone says, "I heard..." no one I have personally met has had anything positive to say about an instructor named Miller whom they've never met.
We will be taking a trip down to Austin this year with Mady to view the capital and maybe some homeschool action or other legislation scheduled to take place. While there, we will of course be visiting our all time favorite swimming hole in the Lone Star State, Blue Hole.
Enough about school. On to play lego's and drink a glass of real sangria before bed. Goodnight!
