Lorena and I split a Whiskey River Burger at Red Robin to celebrate Mothers Day after meeting on Sunday. We liked it so much we decided we are going to do the same thing again next year! Christian and I started the weekend with biscuits and gravy at Pam’s Farmhouse restaurant on Saturday morning. It was Troy’s idea to go there before our twice monthly GaugeCam work session at Dr. Birgand’s lab in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at NCSU. We think this is a tradition that could continue for years. After the lab session, we met Youngin, Lorena, and Kelly at McDonalds for lunch, then spent an hour or so at the Crossroads Barnes and Noble before going home to work on school stuff and a new computer setup at the house.
Kelly drew Betty Blonde and studied for her Precalculus test, so we did not get to work on her fall semester schedule as we had planned. We talked about it quite a lot and came up with what we think are good ideas, but we did not write anything down yet. The innovation, kind of inspired by a comment by Deanne and her daughter’s studies is our thinking on what Kelly might do for languages. She wants to get a non-Germanic, non-Romance language started before she gets out of her bachelors degree. We are trying to figure out how to make that all work out in the time we have available.
Kelly speaks Spanish well since we speak it most of the time at home, but wants to continue through Rosetta Stone for about fifteen minutes per day. She currently studies French every day for about half an hour. Our current operating plan is for her to continue to study French on her own while she is at the Community College, take the CLEP test for French after a couple of years, then go up to Quebec to immerse herself in French for the summer before she goes to NCSU. We have French speaking friends who live in Quebec City, with whom we were very close when we went to church with them in South Florida. We think that might work out well.
We looked into the available languages at NCSU. They have a lot available, but the thing that looks most appealing is their two year Russian program. She needs to look into that further, but it might fit the bill. I think Christian might like to try that, too. If they get two years behind them at about the same time, it would be great to get them over to Russia for a semester or two.
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