Thor is an Academic Games State Champion :D

Cool!

Way to go Thor!

Huzzah!

Congrats!

I'm not familiar with Academic Games. What is it?

Zing #1 has been admitted to the Masters program in accounting at the college of her choice.

http://agloa.org/

His team are returning StateChampions in both Equations and OnSets (elementary school level). But get this... the teams split into subteams of 5. If one subteam wins, the whole team are champs. His subteam "Princess Zelda" won! They fucking won!!!! He needed this break more than anyone has eever needed a break. He didn't go to States last year because he just wasn't mature enough, It was touch-and-go this year, but we promised......

Wow...go you clever kidlettes! :) Well done all round.

I looked over the web page. It's a great idea - give academics a chance to shine.

Congrats to Thor. Love the team name.

Middle school daughter made the cut for the high school marching band next fall. I've got mixed emotions. Proud of her and happy for her. But sad that we'll be stuck here for much of August while she's in band camp. That's when we usually head up to Maine for vacation. Still, she's thrilled, so I'm happy for her. I guess it also means we'll be going to all the football games.

What instrument does she play? Does the school buy the instruments or do you have to? What about uniforms? How often do the practice? Does this explain all the "this time at band camp" stories? Should I not have reminded you of that? Is band camp really camp with tents and fires and stuff?


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I honestly don't know most of those answers.

But she plays trombone. We initially rented a trombone for a year, but I thought that was a real racket, so I bought a nice used one off Ebay for less than we had paid for a year in rentals. That was a couple years ago. Then a neighbor had an extra one kicking around, and it's been on a permanent loan to us. It works out well, because she can keep her good one at school, and use the neighbor's for practice at home. A trombone is a little on the heavy/bulky side to carry back and forth to school each day. It's a mile walk.

She's pretty good for a kid. When her tutor comes over once a week, he sounds amazing, and I make the mistake of mentally comparing her to him. This guy plays routinely for the President. He's in The US Army Band, so it's not a fair comparison. Anyway, she's good. This marching band is the top of 3-4 bands at this particular high school, and one of the best in the region.

My dream is that she practices a lot and gets really good, and gets a scholarship to college. She's probably not that good, but I can dream.

at the high schools here, the kids who play instruments -be it orchestra, band or marching band- have to go to "camp" for a week prior to the start of the year. Here, they go to Interlochen, I think

http://camp.interlochen.org/summer-arts-programs

many kids go to music camp for a week in the summer. Blue Lake is where all the Ann Arbor kids go. except ours.

http://www.bluelake.org/

A week at a YMCA camp is also not uncommon

http://www.annarborymca.org/programs...-gon-quian.php

Very Addams Family ;)


i guess it's whao families witth two working parents need to do in the 13 week break.

Y'all got some great kids. Smarts. Talent. And i hear many of them are quite funny. :)

Somebody is doin' stuff right.