Questions about Upcoming Visit

fencersmother
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:40:41 +0000

Old age setting in… I forgot to post about the visit.

Well, son L O V E D the USAFA!!! He went to three classes with his host cadet (a young man he has fenced before, but didn’t know personally). S went to three classes: US History, some kind of Math (not sure which calculus class) and Spanish. He was surprised by the configurations of the desks and tables in the classrooms… I think he figured there would just be rows of desks with chairs.

He was completely blown away by the athletic facilities. First class all the way and he thought, very well maintained. He really loved the fencing coach and had lunch with the son of one of the gals who posts here on CC! A young man, btw, who thoroughly impressed my S!

The best part of the trip was the food. He has never been able to just eat as much as he wanted, and he thought it was fantastic to just shove the chow into the pie hole! Loved that!

In fact, the only part he didn’t like,and the part he commented on immediately, was the cursing on the part of the upper classmen. Their language shocked him. Not that he’s never heard those words, he’s seen movies aplenty. But, we don’t usually curse with vulgarities here at home and he doesn’t talk that way in his general speech. I think it really disappointed him that the “best of the best” couldn’t express themselves without saying “that F-ing chair” or “the g.d. drill” or whatever. S did notice that the younger kids did not curse,and the upperclassmen did not curse in front of the coaches or other adults. The latter really made S mad, because then he knew that they knew better!

Funniest thing though was his comment about the mountains. Still on the plane though on the ground, he called to tell me he was in at CO Springs. “And Mom, there are these big brown hill-things out the window.” “Might those not be mountains, dear son?” “Oh! Yeah!” I guess he forgot!

If you ask specific questions, I can try to answer them.

I’d say on the whole, his visit was 95% FANTASTIC. And the remaining 5% could have been fixed with a stern look from their mothers and maybe a bar of LifeBuoy for the stubborn.