Weekly Wrap up 10/30/20 -- College update

 Firedrake has been at college for over 8 weeks now and seems to be doing well.  We text several times a week and she calls once a week (usually on Sundays) to check in and chat.  She is happy and that is all we as parents can hope for.  

She sent us a picture of a group art project one of her classes completed.  Turned out pretty cool!

While living in the dorm she is experiencing several interesting events and I will list just a few of them here:)

While Firedrake and her roommate are getting along fantastically, the other two girls in the apartment, however,  are not! Recently one of them moved out of the dorm room unexpectedly!  Firedrake is sketchy on what transpired exactly between the two girls.  They are not sure if they will get another roommate any time soon.

Another issue that came up recently was that a bunch of cars in the dorm parking lot were vandalized one night.  Luckily Firedrake's car was not one of them!  She hasn't heard if they caught the people who did it yet.

Firedrake has registered to vote in her college town as we were unable to get the absentee ballot in time to her.  She can't wait to cast her vote this Nov 3rd.  I have asked her to make sure she takes a picture of her wearing "I voted sticker"!

On two separate evenings rather late the fire alarms went off and she spent some time outside in the cold waiting for the fire department to get an all clear.  Later on she found out both times someone burnt a bag of microwavable popcorn!  She was not amused by those experiences at all :)

Lastly, while she is doing well in her classes she does have one class where the teacher grades incredibly hard and Firedrake tells us that the online classroom chat, the students are all complaining and the tests scores are so bad that the teacher is having to grade on a curve.  Firedrake wasn't completely sure what that meant so she she called us to find out.  Homeschoolers don't usually grade on a curve.

Firedrakes roommate loves Pokemon and since I made a stain glass sun catcher for Firedrake to take to school she asked if I would make her room mate's favorite Pokemon for Christmas.

the roommates favorite Pokemon is EVEE so I found a picture on the internet and came up with a pattern!

 all cut out and will have it ready for when we pick Firedrake up before Thanksgiving to give to her roommate.  

All completed.  Hope she likes it:)

Over all this college seems to be doing well with the pandemic, keeping their covid number fairly low with an average of 10 to 20 cases per week.  According to Firedrake social distancing and mask wearing is expected in all areas around the campus and she is staying safe.