My teachers love the effort I put in and I even cut back hours working to study more.
I am registered for spring classes and I have run out of solely online classes, so I will be taking three in-class classes this spring.
IF I can take a full load of classes in the summer as well (depending on what is offered) I may be graduating with an Associates in Arts this summer and moving on to a Bachelors in the fall! 64 credits and *whew, what a whirlwind of a year and a half!!
The WyzAnt money means SO much, as I have been able to cut back on saving-for-whole-semester's-tuition and merely saving for books and paying my living expenses. I have not been an attentive friend or person, focusing too much on my studies and work sometimes, but I figure in 2 more years I will have all the free time in the world. Hopefully with a degree I can even cut back on working hours and get paid more! (yay minimum wage: NOT!)
I was able to take three days off and go visit my older sister (kalipay) over Thanksgiving. We hadnt seen each other in over a year and half and it was awesome to be around her again. We had both changed a lot since our teenage years in different ways. I am quieter and she is more outgoing, but being together always means a lot to me. I have said in the past that we are all we have. With family like this, who needs enemies?!? Having a sister who embodies the concept of "family" makes all the difference. Hopefully some day some of our younger siblings will also be able to hang out with us and we can really redeem the years that the locust had eaten.
On that biblical note, I am still in no-man's-land as far as claiming a belief system. I have enormous vestiges of Christianity, of course, but I dont feel comfortable or okay with claiming it. Being unable to reconcile a huge part of oneself causes a lot of dissonance. I am glad to be able to throw myself into education and work and put it on the shelf to deal with at a later time.
On a positive note: I was mentioned on the Homeschool Apostates piece by Kathryn Joyce in the Prospect.
According to people, some of the discussions that ended in the creation of Homeschoolers Anonymous (HA) began from my short essay in WyzAnt!!! I had no idea, honestly, and while I have enjoyed reading and contributing a small bit to the work being done, I was greatly honored to be one of the reasons that such a great movement began.
I just keep plugging on with life. Everything will get better and keep getting better, right?
