Stand and Deliver

Many Zoom meetings today...comme d'hab!

I captured a candid camera video of Inga and Dio goofing around speaking with very bad accents.



3 out of 4 kids had soccer today.

Oh--great news--Zari got accepted into Trinity College at the University of Toronto with a first year scholarship that would cover tuition and a bit more! She also is accepted at the University of Ottawa. All of the other places she's still waiting to hear back from, but so far these are both excellent choices and very interesting to her.

It's still going to be a challenge to fund housing. Room & board, if she lives on campus in Toronto, is $20k Canadian ($14k USD) for 8 months. (Ouch!) We crunched some numbers and even if she worked 20 hours per week, she would not make nearly enough to pay for room and board. So now we have to apply for more scholarships and see if she can get enough financial aid to make it affordable. We're also going to see what the cost is to live off-campus and cook her own food.

Meanwhile in France, the *entire* yearly cost for university is 175 Euros. Gasp.

I still harbor a hope that she would stay here. She'd graduate in 2 more years and then could be starting grad school at age 20! But of course she needs to live her own life so we'll just give her lots of options and help her figure out how to make them work.