<p>Thanks, @shawbridge , And glad to hear your D is doing so well. And also glad to hear your S’s bike accident was only minor. Good luck to him (and to you and ShawWife) with navigating this first semester.</p>
<p>sevmom…not sure you remember but D2 transferred after her freshman year. Best decision she ever made. She knew she was in the wrong place immediately but stayed for the year. She contacted the school she wanted to transfer to and made sure every class she took at school 1 would transfer and fill a needed requirement. Good grades helped in obtaining a transfer scholarship. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks, NM. My kids are both done with college (for now at least) but FallGirl’s son may be thinking of transferring. Neither of mine transferred but I agree that sometimes it can be the right thing to do. Hope FallGirl’s son either starts liking his current school better or finds a great place to transfer to!</p>
<p>Duh!!! I read your post last! Sorry! Anyway…hope the info helps you FallGirl! :)</p>
<p>Both D and S transfered and it was the right decision. Good luck!</p>
<p>I am trying to nail down an apartment in Florence for April and really want a word of mouth suggestion.
MP told me about an apartment that we then stayed in Barcelona last June. Thanks again MP.
Anyone? </p>
<p>We also stayed in a great place in Florence but it had three bedrooms. Do you need that much room? </p>
<p>I just looked up the website and there are a lot of units in the building. (We stayed in the Michelangelo.) Good location, nice furniture, clean, near a small park, walking distance to everything. Florence Ciompi Apartments.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.initaly.com/info/apts/ciompi/ciompi.htm”>http://www.initaly.com/info/apts/ciompi/ciompi.htm</a></p>
<p>Wow–you did it again. Thanks! We do not need 3 bedrooms but as long as the price is acceptable it works rather well as then if a room is noisy or cold or whatever there are choices.
I am off for a city hill hike but will definitely look this over later today.</p>
<p>We had very good experiences with airbnb in Croatia and Prague. Haven’t tried it in Italy yet. But, ShawWife has a bunch of people who are waiting for her to lead a painting course – she usually does Italy but maybe she could try Provence or someplace like that. If she runs a course, I usually meet up with her in the end for a week of vacation. If we do, I’ll try airbnb. </p>
<p>I have no issue with transferring per se , we have always told our kids that’s fine as long as they finish out the semester or year and get the credits. This is a little more complicated as he is applying to schools in the U.K. And plans to apply to some American schools in the spring. If he transfers to a UK school, his credits do not transfer, nor do they accept AP credits, so we will have effectively thrown away a years cost of a private college. however most of the UK schools are a 3 year program. Not so sure that is the right choice anyway. If it’s a school in the US or Canada, I have no issue. That said I really, really hope that he decides to stay where he is.</p>
<p>A positive update on boys3x from her husband:</p>
<p>“She is making slow progress. She still is in a “mild” coma, where she obviously knows when I am there and smiles (a closed mouth smile) when I tell her that I love her, and is moving her arms, legs and head purposefully. She gets physical, occupational and speech therapy during the week.”</p>
<p>I have his permission to release more info to those who have communicated with boysx3 directly and especially those who have met in real life. If you want the address of the facility caring for her, please pm me. Please use her real name in your pm so that I know you know her. Thanks.</p>
<p>Great news, rvmom…thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>Thank you rockvillemom. </p>
<p>Oh that IS encouraging news! Thanks for posting, rockvillemom.</p>
<p>Thanks very much, @rockvillemom.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the update. It is much appreciated. </p>
<p>I also appreciate the update, rockvillemom. Thank you.</p>
<p>Thank you rockvillemom.</p>
<p>Adding my thanks rockvillemom.</p>
<p>Well I am on the learning curve and not the top student, I am an elderly learner and memorization has never been my forte. I also am having to retrain my brain to not automatically excluding info that I wont need in practice. Sometimes I make stupid mistakes and it makes me crazy. I am doing fine with A s and B’s and will take that. We were discussing menopause and a young girl said does the memory loss get better after its over? I just laughed. I am told by the students that my examples are helpful
The last week was awful, I was so exhausted, working and studying and the unit was so stressful. We had the kids up to the lake and it was rather disappointing, the interactions were not there. I was aggravated with them all.
I think about boysx3 all the time. She is so sweet and always wanting to help. I hate that she has to suffer like this but glad she is with us and can recover. I agree Shaw the cross is rather strange but I played that song during chemo, and at night when I tried to sleep. It was a gift for me.
I have been reading some Wayne Dyer, don’t agree with everything, but it makes more sense to me that a higher power exists that encompasses all the religions, none of thema re right or wrong. Its all an expression of God.
so I guess a cross is ok. </p>
<p>dt–the other students are Soooo lucky to have your knowledge. I hope they give you flowers.</p>
<p>Dear Aunt has decided to stop everything but does not have a normal life as her back (due to a bone infection) is making her miserable. The cancer is not the actual issue for her yet. As I sit in Oregon and she is in Indiana–well the difference in her indepence to decide is mindboggling.
If she lived here she could ask for the Dignity for Dying proceedure. It is complex but a solid choice and one that I know she would choose. And I would support.
I tried to become part of the system but my credentials where not what they need to fly through the radar.</p>
<p>S loves his job and H had a great conversation with him. More animated than ever.</p>
<p>D feels so dissapointed in her love life. But, and however, for the following week she is on her surgical rotation with the guy (T) who I arranged to move her stuff from OR. to RI and they did not meet for nearly 3 years. And when they did meet she found he was her current BF’s roomate!</p>
<p>She and roomate are over. Now she will be with T (the surgical resident) for a few weeks and H and I have already figured out their future. Also met his Dad when T was picking up D’s stuff…
anyway, so much fun to speculate. Even H has a hint about this one and my dying Aunt said that D is protesting too miuch.</p>
<p>Doesn’t really matter but fun to speculate.</p>