Evendays

The latest student report from our household:

Daughter will pass her junior year in high school with great grades. She’s been out of school for almost a week. She’ll have two friends over from Geneva this week, then she’s off to Marseille for a week with a buddy from Lausanne to do the mini-spiritual internship there.

Son 2 is in the middle of his finals to get out of high school. He’s done very well. Did I tell you he got 1560 on his math-English SAT scores? (He takes after his aunt…) He’ll have some time off before serving as a counselor at the two-week long kids’ camp. Then he’ll do the year-long spiritual internship in Marseille starting mid-September.

Son 1 begins his exams on Thursday. He has worked very hard, and is working hard, preparing for these exams and the ones at the end of August. Only 30 of the 150 students will be allowed to continue into second year. He won’t have much of a break this summer… A sincere “poor guy” escapes my lips. Really.

Of course, our futures are in God’s hands. Bless his name!

(My mistake. It was 1540, not 1560. My math scores weren’t that good.) 

Monday’s a big day. Son 1 will be an official university student, attending classes in the Lausanne University’s Police and Forensic Science department, studying chemistry and biology, math and computers.

The good news is he can live at home where the cooking is excellent and laundry is done at least once a week. He only has to pay $341.62 tuition per semester (we’ll cover that) plus books (we’ll cover those too). Plus, he gets a really good, high quality education in the best Police Forensic Science Department in all of Europe.

The bad news is he has 36 hours of courses per week (all in his field—there are no electives), must get up before 7 AM each morning, and less than 10% of those who begin the semester will pass exams at the end of year one.

But this has been his dream since about 7th grade. We are thrilled to assist him in following his goal.

God gave us Son 1. We’ve appreciated each moment we’ve had with him. We’ve tried to prepare him for his unique future. And we’ve loved him diligently to ground him in faith.

Tomorrow’s a big day. And we couldn’t be prouder of Son 1.