The World According to Leslie

As you turn left onto Main Street in Banner Elk, you see a quaint little building labeled "Chamber of Commerce" with a sign out front inviting you to "Race Your Wooly Worm"! Banner Elk, North Carolina, is the home of the Annual Wooly Worm Festival , but it is also home to Lee-McRae College.   Just a couple turns of the tires later, you see this sign saying to "Turn Here" to park for Open House. At check in, they gave us Lunch Vouchers. Three of the four places on the voucher were within walking distance of the campus. The other was only a couple blocks away, so we could have walked there.      Just about every school we have visited has given Chasity a bag and a t-shirt. She's never going to run out of t-shirts!!  At Lees-McRae, they had the bag customized. It had her degree plan in there. It gave information specific about the art program. Most schools just give you a generic bag and let you collect information from your specific program as you make t...

 On August 17, 2020, my lovely daughter, Chasity, started her senior year of high school. Since she is homeschooled, she is taking dual enrollment classes. Upon graduation in May 2021, she will be given her high school diploma and her Associate of Arts degree. She was supposed to have two classes online, Drawing I and Chemistry. With all the current craziness, she is taking all of those online.  She wants to major in Art when she goes to a 4-year school, so she is planning to take a few more art classes next semester. I am excited for her. She knows what she wants to do. She has already been accepted to two schools--Liberty and Chowan. We are waiting for a couple more schools to respond. We have a few visits lined up, and she is excited.... I think.  Liberty Acceptance Package Chowan Acceptance Package She was also asked to join the National Society of High School Scholars. So, we did!  For the Spring semester in her dual enrollment classes, she made the President's ...