Our life is just a rollercoaster, hold on tight because falling off is not an option.
I finally finished the samples (actually I should say Girl and I finally finished, since she made a set as well) of what the kids are going to be doing in my workshops at the In-Home Conference.
The kids ages 4 to 7 are making bookmarks.
And then the older class will be making both wristbands and these hexagonal discs (that make either a nice coaster or they can attach a key chain to it).
My sister, P, sent this to me and I thought I’d pass it on. This release doesn’t say explicitly that you have to be a college student, so an older teen might want to look into it if they are into wild horses.
WILD HORSE BEHAVIOR INTERNSHIP
*From* January through May 2008 at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina.**
*Work* is 40 hours per week, with an average of two field and three office days per week. Wild horses are monitored for location, band members, and behavior. Pregnancy determination by dung is performed in January. Yearlings are removed with veterinary sedation; contraception is delivered remotely to selected mares. Database and photography work, plus varied activities pertaining to wild horse management, fill the office time.
This internship further qualifies the intern for jobs in wildlife, parks and recreation, resource or equine management. Past interns have gone on to veterinary school, law school, and to employment with wild horses at the North Carolina Rachel Carson Reserve.
*Housing, *furnished, adjacent to the offices and Visitor Center, is included.
*Stipend *eligibility is possible* i*f the intern is enrolled as a half-time student (as defined by the university).
*Credit* may be obtained for the internship if the student’s university recognizes internships and if the student completes the university requirements.
*Position* is open until a candidate is accepted.
Paradise Found had an interesting point in her last comment. I hadn’t realized that Sprittibee or any of her helpers could even be in the Homeschool Blog Awards.
Now when SpunkyHomeschool started the Blog awards it (supposedly) was just a pat on the back that you were ‘winning’, but that’s not the case anymore. The site now crows about how the participants are going to be winning over $1000 in prizes! (and that’s from Vision Forum alone, not to mention other sponsors.) I can’t link to the ‘crow,’ but it’s currently on the left sidebar.
Umm, Doesn’t that mean they need to abid by each state’s rules for contests? I don’t know, but while they aren’t fundraising with the contest, it certainly is no longer playing for a neat badge and at pat.
So, I went looking to see. I came up pretty dry.
I did come up with this for comparison:
From a LiveJournal contest we have pages and pages of legal BS (I’ll copy it out down below for comparison, or you can follow the link.)
And from HBA we have a lonely little blurb, that she refers to later as not being legal BS. ‘I know this is sounding like a legal document’ (I’ll also copy it down below so you can compare.)
Well, I suppose it doesn’t matter……… Read the rest of this entry »
And we’re off to another doctor’s appointment for Boy this morning. There’s a couple of issues that I’m concerned about, so please keep him in your thoughts today.
We are suppose to be home for Drama at 2 this afternoon, and should make it, but I’ve asked my assistant director to cover for me. I’m worried that the doctor will be wanting more tests and we’ll end up spending the afternoon there.
Or, she may just say it’s nothing to worry about, and let’s keep track of what happens for a little bite. In which case I’ll be back with time to spare.
It’s been a busy week with getting applications ready for a Dec. 1 deadline. Actually, the schools Boy was working on don’t all have a Dec. 1 application deadline, but he has a slew of schools due the first, second, and third of January, so I told him he needs to work under the impression that we need the December schools out the door before the first.
I’ve already mentioned his interview at University of Chicago, today he finished scheduling an interview with an alum from Rice University. That’s in about 2 weeks.
Today he finished up and submitted applications to Purdue, Rose-Hulman, and USC. Purdue and USC both have campus scholarships that need an early submittal to qualify and Rose had no application fee if you submitted by Dec. 1. All good reasons to get them out on time.
The only school left for December is Tulane and they use the Common Application. Boy has a draft of the essay that they want, but we decided not to push through polishing it tonight.
Boy is also going crazy with testing. He took the SAT Reasoning test in June and again in October, but many of the schools he’s applying to also want as many as 4 SAT Subject tests. He took 2 a few weeks ago and right now is getting ready to take 2 more next Saturday.
Most of the schools are just saying any tests, or just requiring one to be a Math test, but one of the schools is requiring homeschoolers to take 4 specific tests - English, Science, Math, and a foreign language - which Boy does not have. At this point we are thinking that we’ll submit the four that we do have and his AP scores and see if they complain. I just can’t see dealing with 2 more tests in January, especially the foreign language one - that’s his weakness.
Looking ahead, the biggest obstacle for December is the range of essays that some of these schools are wanting submitted. Two of them actually want an analytic essay submitted (you know that old 5 paragraph, complete with a thesis statement) and I’m not sure he’s come up with a topic yet. But that’s for another day.
And I still have to deal with all the counselor forms. I love the ‘How does this student compare to other students?’ question; and we’ve never developed a statement about why we homeschool. Fun. Hubby is the much better BSer, so whatever I come up with will get polished by him before we send it in.
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