NCSSM

Traveled yesterday to Big City to see the School of Science & Math. Drove straight to it -- did not get lost as I had feared.

Campus has grown significantly since we visited it with DS2 in 1992. Wow. Very, very cool place.

I interviewed four students, all from this county, who are there. Met two girls who are both taking Japanese -- one is an artist, one a musician. The artist wants to be a Japanese professor and the musician wants to be a neonatalogist. Talked with two boys. One seems not to have much going on in the extracurricular arena -- coping with his advanced studies. The other loves his photography class. He gave me permission to post some of his pics here:
Blue-Eyed Photographer Boy is amazing. First of all, of course, are his blue eyes. He has handled this transition amazingly. Went from living at home with mom in small-town high school, where he knew everyone from kindergarten on, to out-of-town residential high school where he knew only one student, lives on campus, has tremendous pressures, very VERY tough classes, and handles it all with ease. Calm, content, at peace.

Oops got to run. Time to pick up Little One from school. More later.........