Questions coming in about Lili's scholarship. We thought each school on the island was able to nominate one kid and the University selected 3 recipients. We now think it might be that each school nominates 3 and the University picks one from each school. Still no clue, it is worded differently in different places and open to interpretation. I'm sure clarification will come eventually. Either way it was a nice surprise. Lili had a 45min meeting with an adviser on Zoom in my office today so I could help her remember, give her a sounding board for after and ask my logistical questions. He was lovely. He helped her figure out which courses to select and walked her through the online part. In order to keep the scholarship for year 2, 3 and 4 she will have to keep a 3.67 grade point. Which is an A-. Right now in high school she works at an A+. So for certain her first year is covered. If she maintains than it will be a great bonus for the the next year and of course no added pressure is needed. So we celebrate the first year for now! She has to have an 80% course load. So a possible 10 classes (5 per term) but must have 8. He feels with her marks a full load is possible but also admitted that first year students can and do struggle in other ways and supported the idea of her lessening the load. So she is aiming for 8, 4 each term. The weekly shedule is daunting. Complicated. She put her classes in for a timetable and it spit out classes from 8:30 to 5, all five days, three to four classes a day. Some of them 3 hours long. No space between. We have no idea where they are, how to get between them, when she will eat. BIG learning curve. She has to pick by Monday. She is diligently researching now. At this point she is thinking Biology major, no minor. This is not declared yet. She doesn't have to declare until year 2 and then can still change her mind. We learned today that most students take five years to complete their four year degree. She isn't limited on years, she is actually covered for 120 credits. Also we learned today that only 30% of VIU's students are full time students! That was pretty shocking to hear. No, we have no idea how much the scholarship is worth. We had priced nursing courses. So only really know ballpark for that. I do know that the Bachelor of Science plan is less per year hence the not looking into it. I believe each class has a cost and they are not all the same. Nope, this hasn't settled Lili down yet. She still waits for news of the nursing schools. We have assured her she doesn't have to take the scholarship. She thinks it's crazy not to. We did tell the advisor today that she was still waiting. I told him my plan for her to accept if she gets in and then gap year it and give this a go. He agreed that was clever. Gives her more options. She can still reapply for next year for nursing at VIU and her year there would help her get in. Although he was looking at her transcript and seemed genuinely confused about why she didn't already get in. He is assuming she didn't do so great on that darn Casper test that was worth 40% of the entrance. She has applied already for housing in a student townhouse. Each townhouse has 8 students. She likes that idea because there is a shared kitchen, no cafeteria to deal with. The pandemic is such a wait and see. The University wasn't sure what September will look like. Lili's classes can all be done online so for us it would be ok. Plus...way cheaper if she stays home! Although I personally think school will be back in session by September so we'll move forward as though that's the plan. I think that covers it for now. Thanks everyone for the congratulations for Lili. She can feel the love pouring in.
Why yes, Coco is doing ok health wise. The vet suspects a liver shunt so she needs some tests. I haven't booked them yet. Been a tad busy.
We met Mom and walked again. Gorgeous day. Kai and Jia were tired so went home with Eric. Luk and Fei stayed and walked with me again. Attempting to get more steps in. Lili opted out. Too busy researching her life plans.
So nice to get out. We're too big a family, there are lots of stares and whispers. Less judging would be nice. The pandemic has not brought out the best in people. I sure hope the issue isn't that the kids are Asian. And on that topic, I am just sick about the rhetoric online and in the news. I have been blocking many of my 'friends' on Facebook. Way too much hate in our little global world. There is no place for it in any Country but especially here in Canada.
Homeschool. Arg. Home today for a Zoom with Luk's teacher. Then we played 3 rounds of yahtzee, made corrections in his writing piece for the week and then worked on new math concepts. Math is too tricky. It took me way too long to figure it out first. Grade 3 math people...too tricky for a bookkeeper!! I did figure out the new way. I tried teaching Luk. But this is exactly why I'm not equipped to teach. I don't know how to get the concept into his head. He stuck it out for 3 hours of homeschool. Bless him. He was trying so hard. Hoping now that I think we're close on the math that we can try in the morning before I leave for work.
I ordered this months ago but it was out of stock and just shipped to me this week. It's too pretty to touch. I made Jia wash her hands first. Haha. Kidding. Not kidding.
Each of his paintings is gorgeous. Would be fun to break the binding, cut them out and hang them in the new playroom. But that's crazy. Right?! It's just a coloring book. Should just enjoy it. In the meantime haven't had even a few seconds to even contemplate coloring.
