Spring/Summer semester

I am four weeks into my semester and so far things are going not too bad. My Quickbooks course is one of the online ones. That course consists of weekly lessons with two online exams and a major end of semester assignment. All of those I have now completed and submitted. Exam grades were 17/20 and 19/20. Of course the final grade won't be posted until sometime in August but at least the workload is done.

That leaves me with 2 in class and two online courses yet to complete this term. The in class ones appear easy so far. One is Business Communication, basically an English class and the other is called Systems, a class showing how technology relates to today's business society. Online I have the tougher ones, Statistics and Cost Accounting. I wrote my first Stats exam the other day and was pleased to get 72%. It is a very tough math class for me to attempt to be teaching myself but if I can keep up that level I will be content with it. (Today's calculators have come a long way since I took Psychological Statistics in university and I won't even mention the pencil and paper methods I used back when I failed and dropped out of grade 13 Calculus.) The first Cost Accounting exam is in a couple of weeks, the same time Chris finishes school for the year.

We have to take him to Camp Borden on June 28th. No free transportation for staff cadets! Oh well, he will be earning ALOT more this summer so I guess it is only fair that parents should pay for something. Meanwhile it is a daily struggle to keep Chris on task so that he manages to complete and hand in all the assignments he has "forgotten" to hand in this semester. I am determined that he will continue to pass his classes and finish his high school diploma next year as scheduled, even if it kills me! That would be because he doesn't care enough to see the big deal in any of this effort.

Deb has put an application in at the local Beer store. They hire only part time staff and she thinks it would be an ideal job for her. When she was in the other day speaking to someone there, they indicated that the store is hiring soon. Once again it seems that we are simply lucky people, in the right place at the right time in order to get what we want or need. She is hoping to hear from them soon. Of course if they want to wait until AFTER we take Chris to camp, that would be fine with me. I was hoping to make time for a mini holiday after we drop him off since Fanshawe is down the first week of July. :-)