So, it was an extremely busy weekend and I've neglected my blog - already! Let me sum it up for you...
Friday night was the FWCHS first football game against Munford. I am sad to report that FWCHS lost 33-0. That was a bummer, but the game was fun to attend. There was a pretty good crowd of kids and parents at the game. The cheerleaders were GREAT! They also had the "Tiny Divas" which are the mini-cheerleaders (little girls). The lady in front of us asked my daughter if she wanted to join and told her she could. :) I was able to register for PTO officially and receive my PTO card (which gets you into games for $1 off!). I also bought a ticket for the band 50/50 raffle (if you win you get 50% of the amount collected). Unfortunately I didn't fare much better than the football team in that contest! My son made me drop him off and walk in separately from him - who knew a mom could be SOOOO uncool? He found several friends to hang with (one who actually goes to FA). I saw several parents and kids I knew. It was typical...Friday Night Lights....
Saturday was my son's first Cross Country meet in Jackson. The coach, Coach Redditt, transported the kids to Jackson himself where I then met up with them to watch the races. The kids had a lot of fun goofing around and talking prior to the meet. There were a lot of schools there! My son, the freshman, drank a little too much before the 2-mile race and had a side ache the whole time. He came in about middle of the pack though - that's pretty good for having a side ache and being new to the sport! One of the FWCHS girls came in #21 out of about 100 girls or so. So proud of her! The older boys came up to say hello to me while I was speaking to my son. I can tell that they welcome him to the team. They were giving him advice and not just blowing him off.
On Sunday I went shopping with my older son (the FA son) for college necessities. One REALLY nice thing about FA was Project Graduation. At Project Graduation the kids are "locked in" to an after ceremony party in which they play games and have fun. They also win prizes! My son got a lot of what he would need for college by winning prizes and through the care package they gave everyone at the event. He also received several gift cards. I barely had to pay anything out of pocket when shopping - that was really nice. I'm failing to mention, however, that I also had to pay $150 and participate in a few fundraisers his senior year in order for them to gift the $300 worth of items to each kid. But...it was still a really nice event and my son loved going. To my knowledge they don't have anything similar to this at FWCHS.
Still no problems to report from my FWCHS son. Oh - he did say his locker was pretty small, but he's going to come through that okay, I think :). He's actually becoming more responsible already and worried about his grades, etc. He's trying to figure out what he should be after college. If only I knew!
If I catch my breath this week I will prepare a blog about the demographics and statistics associated with FWCHS. I've been compiling info and want to share soon...
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