She has been at school for 7 days now. We left her 6 days ago. She had a rough patch with trying to do band and not feeling like she fit in but she has overcome that. She is still in constant communication with us. Not sure how much of that is being homesick, how much is because she has the time and how much is just habit. I have been trying to take her lead and not nag her too much.
There has been a lot of communication this week just with changes to her schedule and class formats. Her school does this cool thing where books are $9.95/credit hour and included in the tuition. However, with many classes moving to an online or hybrid format she has had to purchase books. The most expensive being $110 so far. Totaling $200 so far for three books.
Going to school during a pandemic is different. However, I think her school has done an excellent job of trying to maintain some normalcy (responsibly). I know they seem to be getting a lot of flack from their community but the students seem to be responsible (for now). They did grab and go craft kits, movies under the stars and glow bingo. All socially distanced.
Serena has met some new friends and put herself out there. I was worried with going to school with her grade school bestie she would navigate to the known to avoid the unknown. However, tonight her bestie was not up for the movie and she put herself out there and found people to go with. Even though they restarted the moving about half a dozen times to get the closed captioning to work she seemed to enjoy it. She learned some valuable lessons -- use the bathroom first and bring bug spray (which she has in her room).
She has ventured to her new bank twice, done laundry and dishes and walmart twice (once for groceries and once for a necessary cord to get her printer to connect). She seems to be figuring things out and I am super proud of her for that.
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