Our daughter is taking an intensive Spanish class at the
University of California at Santa Cruz
Summer
Session. This program was recommended to us by a friend who
volunteers with
Habitat for Humanity, building
houses in Guatemala every year. We decided to do this because Jessica is interested in studying international relations when she goes to college and four years of classical Latin will not be much help in that field. We hope
that she can test into the second year of Spanish for her senior year in
High School.
Jessica is the only high school student in her class and the only one
in her dorm. She is having a good time being on her own for half the week
even if it can be lonely. The experience is giving her some excellent ideas
on what she wants in a college besides academics. Living in a redwood forest, daily encounters with deer and the campus mascot, the
Banana Slug,
and eating in a cafeteria are all new experiences. We
expect her to come home wearing a Fiat Slug t-shirt.
Next week, Jessica also begins an SAT tutoring session three nights a
week with Excel Test. The first
time she took the
SAT, she got a perfect score
in English but her Math score may not be high enough to get Jessica
into some of the more technical colleges. This tutoring company
was recommended by her college advisor.
The advisor said that frequently the more imaginative students had trouble
getting the highest SAT Math scores because they kept interpreting the
questions instead of answering the simplest way.
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