The meet goes on. Today will be Day 2, with Megan and me heading out to Princeton instead of Kevin and Megan. He will head for Finland after taking Brian to church for his 'pilgrimage meeting' where they will try to determine if there will be a pilgrimage, and if the pilgrimage will be again to Northern England, or if it will be someplace else. Sorry I will miss this. The last one was interesting.
Of course, some of this depends on Brian's final choice of high school. If he chooses one of the Catholic high schools, I'm not sure he'd even do a youth group at church, aside from what he will need to do next year for his confirmation. But that's separate, as we learned last year with Megan, and participation in this group he's in now is not linked to those classes.
Yesterday's test was apparently quite difficult. Although I loved the walk through the neighbor's yard (we were there in about two minutes), he reported that there was so much on the test that he had never seen before, so I am not optimistic. He said this was the case in both math and vocabulary. There is also a form to be filled in by the guidance counselor (in whom I have very little faith) stating whether or not he recommends Brian for that school. In no place does it ask for teacher recommendation. Only guidance. So we'll see how that goes. They also ask if the student has any limitations, and what are they...this makes me very nervous, as it seems to be discrimination under cover. The last sentence says all responses will be kept confidential. So when they find out about the 504, they might use all his weaknesses and reject him based on that; when in fact they just don't want to deal with anyone with any special needs.
The final cause for concern, he told me as we walked Molly at the park, is an essay question which I hadn't been able to prep him for. They had three choices: faith, integrity, or achievement. He chose a seventh grade science project and write about that as an achievement. I'm not so sure this was quite the broad spectrum answer they're looking for. I try to coach him to use the chiari to his advantage in times like these, but he's not usually insightful enough to figure out how to do this on his own. This is his weakest area, and probably the cause of most of the problems he has had in school.
Otherwise, Megan had a good meet yesterday. She came in 6th in her first event, and swam well enough in the other two. Today she has the 500 and she's seeded 4th, but that hardly means anything, especially at this time of year. You don't know who is swimming at what level just yet, this meet is more for practice than major achievement, although of course everyone welcomes a best time at any meet.
In other news, I attended the 'murder mystery' at our church last night with a friend. It was entertaining. They're trying to do more activities to raise funds, but they really should try thinking of them as ways to foster community in the church. Our church can be so boring. It's nothing but hour and a half long Sunday services and a bunch of groups that meet during the week. There is nothing 'fun'; it's all spiritual. But then, perhaps that's the wrong gripe to have with a church? Except that I can't be the only one with the gripe. The murder mystery was supposed to be taking place at a class reunion, the class of 1957. And I would have to say, that was about the average age of most of those in attendance.
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