Well it's Tuesday, Bean has made it through a full week of the fifth grade now and has decided it's not so bad, the homework still sucks but the rest of fifth grade is pretty good. Thank God.
Bean was given an application to be a fifth grade ambassador. The ambassadors help set up and tear down for school 'events', decorate for holidays and run errands for teachers, basically a fifth grade roadie from what I can gather from the forms sent home. Bean says it's an honor to be chosen, only two from each fifth grade class get to be ambassadors, and she's quite serious about it so I hope it works out for her. It may be one of those things she hates but has to put up with because she chose to do it [like piano lessons]. As part of the application process Bean had to write an essay [at least 50 words] explaining why she wants to be an ambassador. She counted carefully and came up with a 52 word essay because she didn't want it to be to long, "just in case they deduct points for essays that have to many words". I know...I tried to explain "at LEAST 50 words" means as many [over 50] that you need to clearly make your point, but she wasn't having it. She absolutely didn't want it to be to long. Her essay, her rules. Okay.
We argued over piano lessons too, she got her way then as well. I know the work habits of my daughter, and I think she's the best little girl in the world but she hates to apply herself to anything that doesn't come easily to her.
Bean was SOOO excited about learning to play the piano so I signed her up for lessons...then Oh My Gosh...she found out that she wasn't a child prodigy and would have to practice. It went downhill from there. I made her stick with it for a year and by then she played fairly well [for a one year student] but was still not interested in continuing the lessons so we moved on to Girl Scouts.
I only allow one extra curricular activity at a time. I'm firmly believe in broadening her horizons but not at the expense of family time or school work, so for now she's a Girl Scout and happy to be one. We'll see how this ambassador gig works out before we make a decision about dropping Girl Scouts.
Bye for now, T.