Friday July 31, 2015 {Gonzaga University}

1. We got up and ate the provided breakfast at the hotel, then walked to the Gonzaga campus for a tour.

2. After the tour,  I met with an admissions counselor, and I swear it felt like I was interviewing for a job. She kept asking questions, and while I was talking she wrote notes on her clipboard.

Gonzaga has a beautiful campus!

3. We got some lunch, then walked back to the hotel, and rested for a while. We went down to the pool, and mom went swimming while Isabelle and I read and stuff.

4. We walked around a bit, then went to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory.

5. We walked down to the Riverfront Park (a huge park on the Spokane River) and did stuff there for a while.

6. We went back to our hotel, read Frankenstein, and went to bed.

Thursday July 30, 2015 {Washington State University}

1. We left around 7:30 in the morning, and made it to Pullman, WA around 3pm. In the middle was a lot of driving. Once you leave I5, it's a whole lot of nothing for many hours.

2. In Pullman, we stopped at WSU. It was very hot, around 100 degrees, and we went to Ferdinand's (a pretty famous creamery at WSU) to get ice cream. After that, Mom and Isabelle went to the museum on campus to look at animals, and I went to the library, which is way more beautiful than the pictures I have can show.

3. I love libraries, and I spent a while wandering through the shelves, reading titles. I found myself in Philosphy at one point, and pulled a copy of the complete works of John Locke off the shelf, and I swear that spine had never been cracked.

4. We left Pullman and headed into Spokane, where we checked into our hotel, then walked to the Chipotle down the street for dinner.

5. After dinner, we went back to the hotel.

6. Read Frankenstien, went to bed.

Thursday, May 21, 2015 {Harry Potter in Latin}

1. Got up around 6:45, and got ready for the day.

2. Spent my morning doing various schooly things, and planning out the day's Latin lesson.

3. Walked two blocks to Gloria's house for Latin. We did some fun activities that included reading the first Harry Potter book aloud in Latin.

4. I had an idea about creating a Harry Potter Latin Summer Book Club (still working on the name :P), and emailed people who I thought might be interested by such an idea.

5. Did some more things that were boringly academic in nature, then went to my dad's house.

6. Researched various smartphones for a while, and made a nice chart of what they cost from different places.

7. I realized that my SAT scores were up on the College Board website, so I went to check those. My total was a 1800, which I was pretty happy with, though I wish I had done better on the math. Interestingly, my ACT scores are actually quite a bit better than the SAT scores.

8. Isabelle and I had dinner with my dad and Beth, then came back home.

9. I discussed college stuff with my mom for a while, watched Doctor Who, read Jane Eyre, and went to bed.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 {The Evergreen State College}

1. Got up at the ungodly time of 5:45, got ready to go.

2. Left the house at about 6:45, and ate a bagel in the car. We were on our way to visit The Evergreen State College, about 3 hours away. I did some studying in the car.

3. Made it to Olympia around 9:30, and found a place to park. We then walked to find the admissions office.

4. We listen to an hour long admissions presentation. It was one of the better ones I've heard. They talked a lot about the unique academic situation at Evergreen, and it was well done. I have a feeling that as a homeschooler, they would be very nice to work with application wise. They are certainly used to non-traditional transcripts and such.

5. After that we went on an hour long tour of the campus. It was very similar to so many campus tours I've been on. We saw the main academic buildings, a dorm room, etc.

6. After that, we ate lunch hurriedly, and then I went to sit in on a class. The class that day was seminar style, meaning that it was broken up into groups of 15 or so, and each was doing student led activities and discussion. It was a three hour class, but I could only stay for the first hour, after which point I met back up with mom, and we headed home.

7. We drove home. I was tired and feeling kind of weird, so I attempted to sleep on the way home, and did a little.

8. We stopped and got dinner at Chipotle on the way home.

9. When we got home, I finished the draft that was due the next day in English, and attempted to study for the test in Geology.

10. We watched Doctor Who, read Jane Eyre, and went to bed.