As you know, I was not real keen on the idea of homeschooling. I would have preferred to have continued to send Ian to a public school and have THEM take care of IT. However, THAT wasn't happening thus the whole homeschooling thing.
I must admit, I resent Granby for doing this to me. You know, making me take charge of my son's education. Making me be the one responsible. Making it so I would have to learn Math.
Ian had a couple of friends over last night and they ended up leaving because they got into kind of a fight. Or more explicitly, they started beating up on Ian. Ian said they always do that since he's the smallest kid in town for his age. Of course, I now hate these kids and their parents and their grandparents and their DNA. But as Ian said, most of the kids in this town are either using drugs or violent.
It is somewhat of a violent culture around here. As you know, we have multiple hunting seasons, everyone, it seems, except for our family, hunts. We now have Air-Soft guns something I thought we'd never have (actually, I didn't even know they existed) and we now receive a weekly edition of "Crossfires" which happens when you order guns online, even fake ones. It goes well with the Catholic Digest we get, courtesy of Mike's mom.
Both Ian and I are looking forward to moving back to Oregon. Oregon's not perfect, I know that. But this town is, quite bluntly, crazy. We're looking forward to having more choices in friends - there's not much of a choice between crazy with drugs and crazy with guns.
I hope to one day look back at my stay in Granby with fondness, but right now I'm so intent on getting out of here, I'm finding it hard to find anything of redeeming quality here.
Ian's looking forward to going to a public (or maybe private) school. He hopes he's not the smallest kid and Jordan, his older brother, says it'll be good to start a high school brand new; he can create the kind of person he wants. I think that's kind of cool - a brand new start with the kind of people you want.
We're both looking forward to it.
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