Earth Day in Highland Park; Benjy in NJ
Next week on Thursday, April 22 from 6 to 9 pm there will be an Earth Day Extravaganza and a health fair at the Highland Park High School.
Also, stand up comedian Benji Lovitt reports he will be in Whippany, New Jersey on April 18: “Because the Middle East is funny.”
Last night my husband and I attended our first college application planning meeting along with a roomful of other parents at my son’s school. College? Wasn’t he just born yesterday?
Raizy says
I am also in the midst of SATS and college applications with Flash. It is quite a shock to the system to realize that our little boys are making grown up plans, isn't it?
Leora says
Sounds like Flash is one grade ahead of my eldest. Maybe they'll meet someday...but we probably will never know if they do.
G6 says
This photo makes me want to just lie down on the grass on a bed of petals. sigh........
Re the passage of time: just wait till college flies by....
Robin from Israel says
College? I think I'd pass out. I'm already stressed enough at the thought of league-level traveling soccer next year.
Leora says
My little one wants to go to sleep-away camp next summer. She would have gone this summer, if we had allowed. Yikes!
Mrs. S. says
That's nice to hear that the school has an explanatory evening for the parents. BA"H, our eldest is about to graduate high school, and such an event would've been very helpful...
Leora says
We get to go to another one next year... the school is very organized about all this. We also got the talk about going to Israel for a year...don't pick yeshiva for your son just to say "My son goes to such-and-such well-known yeshiva."
Jew Wishes says
What a nice photo, with the delicate leaves showing their color, even on the ground.
Yes, where does time go!?
Enjoy Earth Day!
Ilana-Davita says
Did you find the meeting useful? Has he only got one more year of high school before he goes to college?
Leora says
Useful? A bit. It starts the conversation about getting ready.
No, he's in tenth grade. So he has two years before applying to college. Next year he takes the SATs. This year he will probably take the SAT subject test for chemistry; last year he took it for biology. Then he might go to Israel for a year before college, but he applies to college in 12th grade.
It hasn't changed all that much since I applied; there's a writing test on the SATs, but other than that, they just changed the names of the tests. The stress is still there.
Ilana-Davita says
Thanks for the lengthy answer. Things obviously are quite different in France.
Patti V. says
Oh I know what you mean, Leora, Our daughter is graduating from the University of Hartford next month. Then what??
;-)
And our son is a sophomore there. The time does fly.
Too bad those pretty blossoms already are on the ground. It must have rained.
Klara Le Vine says
I wonder if kids ever think time has gone by so fast. Humming to myself Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the roof. Strange how time seems to go even faster when older.
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