Preparing for a Summer (Almost) Alone
Posted by Shannon Buck on June 12, 2009
Zowie leaves for Upward Bound on the 19th. She made peer counselor for the program, and is a student with the program. The peer counseling will be good practice for her, as she is planning to go to college for Adolescent Psychology.
Her summer courses for UB are: SAT Prep, Geometry, and Advanced English.
She will also be doing work experience.
All of the above is for a college prep program at the local university. She attended last summer as well. I may only see her one or two weekends during that six week program.
When she comes back home at the end of July, she will be doing a lot of US History studies for the AP US History course she is taking next year. This will give her a college credit, I do believe, as does Upward Bound.
Zowie is very focuses academically.
I had a laptop that I recently handed over to Phil, my brother-in-law. He is refurbishing it, adding more memory to it, and has set the desktop and everything up with a Battlestar Galactica theme. Why? Because I gave to to Zowie as her birthday gift for Upward Bound, her last year of high school and college. I know. I rock. She already told me so.
So, I intend to be doing two things this summer:
1) Cleaning and organizing most of the rooms in the place, at one per week.
2) Writing. A lot. As a matter-of-fact, my goal is to finish the book of short stories that I am working on. Wish me luck!
Zowie is doing some basic cleaning tasks before she leaves so that it will be easier and quicker for me to do the deep cleaning.
- washing out trash cans, organizing the dvd’s, dusting all of the shelves, washing the tub area completely…you get the picture.
The rest is up to me. And it will be a lot of work, considering that I am a pack rat as well as completely unorganized.
I plan to make meals/snacks ahead and freeze them in preparation for my very busy summer. This will cut back drastically on cooking time.
