I do not want steal Kelly’s thunder, but I wanted to talk a little bit about Friday’s visit to Campbell University.  We did not get off to a great start.  On the drive there, the road was blocked so we had to take a detour.  Then our GPS unnecessarily took us on a serpentine route through Fuquay-Varina.  We called ahead because we knew we would arrive about a half an hour late.  This morning I mapped it on the Internet, something I should have done before we drove down there the first time.  We are less than twenty miles from the Campbell campus on a route that avoids all the rush-hour traffic we encountered on Friday.

The Campbell campus is beautiful.  There is new construction going on in several places and recently completed construction in several other places.  All this nestled among building built from the late 1800’s on.  The campus is small enough to walk just about anywhere in less than 15 minutes.  We talked to the admissions lady who deals with homeschool students.  She had homeschooled her own children and even though the focus of her homeschool was fundamentally different than ours, she understood a lot of our issues and had lots of good advise about financing which was quite encouraging to Dad.

I will let Kelly describe her thoughts on the academic trip, but when we returned home, Kelly and I were able to sketch out a plan that would not only give her a hard major, but also give her a minor to prepare her for the Masters degree she wants, and still have time to take some cool electives and participate in a club or two.  All in all, we had a great time going down there, we have lots of things to chew on for the next bit with respect to figuring out how to pay for it all, and some academic things to accomplish to be ready to get a great start at the school.

On top of all that, we kind of figured out, this might be a good choice for Christian.  Christian and I sat down and mapped out a plan for him, too.  It included the same elements:  a hard major, a creative minor, and a path to a good Masters degree program.