9/15/22

Avery and I (along with Aunt Julie in Kentucky) watched an online presentation about the 7 mistakes people make when financially planning for college. I am not mature enough to do this with Avery.

As the presentation started, we wanted to make sure our peanut gallery comments were not heard by others. As Avery quiet clicked on different pictures to mute us, I yelled out “can you hear us?”. Avery was not pleased, but we found out that they could not, in fact, hear us.

Our speaker, thought he was funnier than 99% of the people he was talking to did. Poor man. I imagine it is a difficult subject to engage people for an hour.

Avery then spent time trying to financially map out what her college life will look like and cost. She was entertaining doing her basic coursework at a SUNY school to save on the amount of loans she will get. 

As she was looking at the residence life, there were a few specialty houses on campus. The houses were themed. The residents would participate in themed activities. For example, the scholars house, as she read about it, sounded like it wasn’t where the “fun” group lived. We were joking about how she could live there but she had to really embrace her inner nerd.

Avery shared with me about how they are discussing the international space station in one of her classes. It orbits the earth ever 90 minutes. It includes 15 agencies around the world that collaborate on projects together in space. We watched it zoom over us tonight as we stood in the field. It took a minute to spot, but then we couldn’t miss it. It was moving right along at a fast rate of speed.

Avery was saying how she follows some of the astronauts that are in it. One lady is growing plants. She then joked that maybe Jiminy could be on the ISS. We laughed at what the health scan process would be like for him. She joked he needed to have 20/20 vision and how he would be eliminated for only having one eye. I said he had 20 vision….

It was a great day.