Ahhhh... all this time has gone by and I have an update for you.

My older daughter has signed up for FRENCH for next year, 10th grade!!! She is currently completing her 4th year of high school level Spanish and was debating about taking another year of Spanish, quiting foreign language all together, staring French at her current school OR taking Italian at a high school near our home. Students are allowed to take a class not offered at their high school that is offered at another high school but they need to provide their own transportation and they will miss one class per day for the time used to get back and forth to the class. So if she took Italian, she would only be taking 6 classes per day instead of 7. We had been told that the Italian teacher is really fantastic as she is a native speaker and the school is very close to our home so she was really debating taking Italian. In the end, she went with French and has left Italian as an option for maybe 12th grade.

I personally was surprised by her decision as she gave up Photography to take French. I thought she would go the other way around and give up the language elective as she has her 2 years language requirement for graduation and the 4 years colleges are now looking for so why not take a different elective like photography? Why go to yet another language? So I am very proud of my girl as you all know, I have trouble with my native English forget about me speaking another language, let alone two other ones!

So, Zubr... get ready for some questions from her starting next school year!!