BoardingPOV

Michelle:

Earlier, in January,  my friend and I decided to make a movie on iMovie…best experience EVER. I had gone to her house for the weekend because she had a second home in the area. She is a boarder from Jamaica! Her mom had come in for the weekend on business, so she invited [...]

Michelle:

First off, congratulations to all who applied to boarding school and got in! It is quite an achievement and something to be proud of! After all your hard work, you finally made it, now comes the “easy part” ( well at least you’re in, right?)

choosing the school.

Most people apply to [...]

Parents:
Dear readers,  well as you can tell, we’re moving into the “On Campus” phase of Michelle’s Boarding School story.  We returned home late this week after registration/orientation – more on that in a moment.
Yes, there was a death in the family, and it certainly put a damper on the weekend before we headed off to [...]

Michelle:
Usually it makes someone feel more comfortable going to a new place, when they already know someone, or have tips and advice from someone already there – which is what happened a few days ago.  I was able to eat lunch with a family whose daughter was already at my soon-to-be high school.
My [...]

Mom & Dad:
March 10th – Admissions letters, and online notifications posted. Yikes!  First hurdle cleared – she got accepted at the two local school options, and two of the five boarding schools (others were wait-listed).  And, for Michelle, she did get accepted at her first-choice boarding school!  And, she received a nice financial aid [...]

Mom & Dad: It was late September/ early October – time to start getting applications, and deciding where to apply.  As we indicated on an earlier post, we were struggling with the idea of applying to boarding school.  For Mom, it was tantamount to packing her bags to send her daughter off, but for Dad, [...]

Mom & Dad:  She DID start 8th grade with a new level of focus – we saw it. Even her 8th grade teachers commented on the change.  Motivation, yeah – that’s what we like!  Of course, we had to put up with a bit of annoying “I wish I were back (there)!”  But she settled [...]

Dad:
Our daughter, Michelle, is going to Boarding School.  No one in our extended family ever has even considered it. We are from the central part of the country – where boarding is not the norm, for most a foreign concept and as you’ll hear later, a somewhat suspect option.  But, from the moment the middle [...]