Dd's conversations with friends--homeschool style ;)

[8filltheheart]

I picked up Dd last night for spring break. Our car ride home was full of great conversation, but I had to share these 2 stories she shared bc they are so "homeschooler."

 

She said she was sitting out in the common area working on Russian when one of her friends sat down.

Friend, "What are you working on?"

Dd,"Russian."

Friend, " But I thought your Russian class was just a literature class?" looking at dd's Russian grammar book and the exercises she was writing.

Dd, "It is. I'm doing this for fun."

Friend (laughing), "I can't think of anyone other than you that I know who'd study for fun."

 

Then, a couple days ago a whole group of them were talking about registering for classes and someone mentioned a Shakespeare class. All of them being really chatty.

Dd, "I really wish I could take that class. I love Shakespeare."

Half of them getting quiet, one asks, "You love Shakespeare??"

Dd, " oh, YES! I wrote my sr thesis on Shakespeare."

A friend, shocked, "Your mom made you write a sr thesis?!"

Dd, "No. I begged her to let me."

Friends, "Only you!" laughing with her.

 

Dd (happy and laughing) says to me in the car, "We really are weird, mom, bc we want to study and learn things just bc we want to."

Me, "Homeschool success bc that is the whole pt!!"

 

I love it.

Edited March 9, 2018 by 8FillTheHeart

[maize]

Lovely stories!

 

You have truly cultivated a love of learning.

 

I will say that this can happen outside of a homeschool context as well, it did in the home I grew up in. My parents shared with us their own love of learning--my dad for literature, history and languages, my mom for music, math and science. I remember wondering as a teenager why it was that most of my classmates seemed to not care about learning.

 

Most of us were homeschooled at some point but usually not for more than a few years and never for high school--mostly early elementary and that was more unschooling.

 

I remember one summer break when I was in junior high; we kids were on a Shakespeare kick, reading and producing plays. My mom was trying to get us all to practice our music more and used Shakespeare as the incentive--"I don't want to see any more Shakespeare reading until music practice is done!"

 

Good times :)

[8filltheheart]

My mom was trying to get us all to practice our music more and used Shakespeare as the incentive--"I don't want to see any more Shakespeare reading until music practice is done!"

 

Good times :)

Love your post, Maize, but I especially love this part. :)

[Angie in VA]

I love these stories. 

 

A friend of ours who was a park ranger on the mall in DC called to invite us to go to DC for the day w/ her and her dc. She's smart, funny, fun, and oh, knows so much about history and art history, so this was a no brainer. 

 

I told the dc, and dd said, "What about violin?" I said, "That's not your lesson day." She asked, "No, I mean what about practicing?" Um, when a former park ranger who knows so much about art history and history offers to spend the day w/ you in DC at museums and monuments, YOU GO!

 

I also had to tell this child she couldn't practice violin until after at least some school work was done. 

 

I wish I had her work ethic!

[daijobu]

I think I remember that you were struggling to find a college that was a good fit for your student, given her very advanced Russian skills.  (Was that you?)  How is her school working out for her?  

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[8filltheheart]

I think I remember that you were struggling to find a college that was a good fit for your student, given her very advanced Russian skills. (Was that you?) How is her school working out for her?

She entered into this U placing into 400 level Russian, but she absolutely loves the dept and the professors. Last semester she read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Russian through a language lab. This semester nothing is actually in Russian, but she is doing a large project for the dept which requires a lot of listening and cataloguing, so she is working on language skills on her own that way.

 

She is slightly crazy bc she is triple majoring and double minoring. She is triple majoring in international business, finance, and accounting and minoring in French and Russian. That is why she really wants to take the Shakespeare class but can't bc every single course is locked in plus she has to take 4 classes during the summer (after entering with 30 hrs toward her major) in order to complete all of them.

 

She was surprised by just how much she enjoys accounting and just added that major with permission and with a waiver to take those 4 classes elsewhere, so from that perspective, I am glad she didn't end up somewhere where she would have been strictly a foreign language major. But, wowsers, she is juggling a lot. She really seems to be loving every minute of it, though. (Her accounting professors really like her too, and she was just nominated for peer mentor for the accounting dept. Accounting is just not something I would ever have thought of her enjoying so much.)

Edited March 11, 2018 by 8FillTheHeart