Due to the arrival of our new exchange student, Daniel, from Korea, I didn’t have much time to do school the week after Week One. So I completed Week Two over two weeks (No, this is not a trend. I will be completing Week Three in hopefully one week. I refuse to make it three!!). This journal is looking back over the last two weeks (and the calendar).
First Week
I didn’t do much school. Daniel and his mom arrived and we did a lot of driving around, meeting with people, and problem-solving. Since I felt I could’ve done a better job on last week’s English assignment, I did that this week. I feel that I did an amazing job on it although I could still improve. My assignment was to interview my parents and write a page essay on the cost of following Christ for my family. It was a challenge, but I used the resource of a new book I got, “Thinking On the Page, A College Student’s Guide to Writing Essays” (I think that’s the name) and wrote something I believe my parents liked.
Second Week
I spent a lot of time on a lot of things and did a lot of catching up. My Bible memory verse for the next few weeks is Psalm 139 and I memorized through half of verse five. Spelling was crazy because I forgot about it until late in the week and we were out of “TUMS” tablet so I couldn’t do my science experiment. All three boys were home for Labor Day weekend. The craziness of life…