Co'op

Today was the first day of co'op...and it was better than I thought it would be.

We got to the place before the first class started at about 8:45 am, and a couple of ladies told my sister and I could go into the library and hang out while we waited for the other kids to be done with their first class, and mom helped get things set up. So we went into the library and I caught up on a little bit of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while I waited. About halfway through, Kaitlyn and I killed some time by walking around the place and met some kids who were also skipping out on the first class.

At 9:45, our first class, English, started. My sister and I were the first ones there, partly because we had nothing to do, and partly because we were excited and wanted to get the day going. The teacher of the class was young...in her early twenties - a homeschool graduate - and very nice. She told us to sit down, so we did, and soon the other kids started pouring in.

I thought I was going to be the only one over fourteen in the class...I thought I was going to feel big and out of place...but actually, most of the kids in the class were 16 or 17! It was pretty cool! Everyone in the class was nice, and the lesson was good...nice and easy for the first lesson...

Our next class was literature. In this class, there were only two students besides my sister and I, and they were both boys. I think it's cool to have a nice small group of people for classes like this sometimes...your opinion can be heard better, and it's more of an intimate atmosphere. I really like this class so far, because I'm a reader, and in this class I'm able to learn about and discuss concepts that I already had down in my mind, but could not find names for. It was a very good class. Our first book will be Around the World in 80 Days.

After that we had lunch, during which we met a whole flock of girls, all of whom were very friendly, and asked us to sit with them. While we sat in their general vicinity, Kaitlyn and my mom and I stuck together for the first day. When we went to heat up our food in the microwave, this very tall blond boy came up to us out of nowhere and started shaking my sister's hand, saying, "My name's Steven!" when I came up from the microwave, he shook my hand and introduced himself, too. Now, I thought this was very impressive...and he didn't stop impressing me all day. He was just a sweet gentleman.

My Biology 2 class was a bit harder than the first two, although I liked it, and it was very enlightening. It was good to have a teacher explain things that the book just did not seem to explain very well without visual aid, and I think I'll do okay in this class. The teachers are both very nice, too...Just very sweet ladies. They are excited about God, and Biology...I think they'll do a great job.

After Biology, this girl named Kaitlyn came up to me and was asking me about how I liked Biology and we talked about what we were having a hard time understanding and how good the class was...She was just so sweet! She came up to my sister and I again after that to ask us how we liked our first day of Co'op.

I don't think people realize how much the little things count. Just being friendly and bubbly and going up to someone and talking to them can work wonders, and this co'op was just full of spectacular people all day long...we never felt left out...we never felt like the 'new kids', at least not in a 'you're-separate-from-the-rest-of-us-way'...

I loved it.