Monday I spent the morning at Georgetown Day School, or GDS, where i met with Elaine Scott and was given an excellent 2-hr tour of the entire school, which was recently renovated. Tuesday I got to work on my paper and interview my dad for a nice long chat. Wednesday I spent half the day at the oh-so beautiful prep school called Episcopal in Virginia, where I got to meet with lots of different people and get an extensive tour of the school from three freshman. Thursday i was off to the funky Field school, which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. And finally friday I ended at the Maret school, which also surprised me with their progressiveness.
I learned this week that appearances not only can be deceiving but usually are. Almost all of the schools I visited appeared a whole lot different than they actually were.I loved what I was doing, I was shocked to see how fun it was to sit down and talk about admissions and education, until I realized that this is what I talk about with my family most of the time anyways. Things didn't really happen as I expected, but this was good, I got so much more from all the schools and all the people than I had ever hoped. The amount of information I received was pretty much out of control-but in a good way. Now the tricky part will be sorting through the copious amount of info to find the "good stuff". I will benefit greatly from this week's activities because I finally got to really see the schools and talk with the people who run them behind the scenes.
Next week will be dedicated to putting all of the information that i gathered together, finishing my research paper, writing my reflection and of course creating my brochure. I almost wish that I had taken a video of all the schools because there was so much funky and cool info from each of the schools that i wanted to write down and remember but simply couldn't type all of it down fast enough.
Until next time..
peace+love
Abbie
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