May 17, 2005

• Well, Dmitry's in the throes of final exams as this is being
  typed.  He's presently struggling to get all 66 books of the Bible
  in order.  Technically he's supposed to have the spelling down
  pat, but the teacher's gonna cut him some slack on that from what I
  understand.  He has worked and worked on learning those
  books.  He could be heard reciting them in his bedroom over the
  past few days.  He studied them on the way to school this
  morning.  Let me tell you, that boy has tried. 

  After the Bible test is his history test.  This one we're sweatin'
  bullets over.  Then is the science test but it was a 10 question
  essay exam and he turned it in yesterday, so I'm not sure what
  the kids'll do during the test period.  Yesterday was math, which
  he didn't do as well as he'd hoped he would, and P.E., which I think is
  just silly.  The test was to make up the rules for a game. 
  He wrote down, as best he could, the rules of a game he used to play in
  Russia, but that isn't played here.   I thought that was
  sensible of him, rather than wasting time attempting to dream something
  up, then having to compose some sort of coherent sentences in
  English.   Just skip to the English!

  Tomorrow is the computer test.  Last night he asked me, "Mom, do
  you know what "excel" is in computers?"  "Do you mean the computer
  program Excel?  Like Word and Powerpoint?"  "Yeah, that's
  it."  "Um, ask your father about it."  The last exam is the
  English test, but he says the teacher is excusing him from it. 
  Now whether that means he doesn't have to take one at all, or if she's
  going to have one just for him, I don't know.

  He's about to faint, he's so anxious for 11:30 tomorrow to come. 

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