Dear Cathy or Shall I Call You "crc"?

Cathy, I assume your comment/note meant you put your kid in the Spanish Immersion Lottery this year at Laurel Ridge Elementary and didn't get picked? Then you googled it and my blog came up? I can't think of any Cathy I know who was applying for the program and you commented on a post that is about a year old. Just trying to put the pieces together in my head. In any case, you left no email address and your profile is blocked, so I can't reply to you directly. As of the last day of March 2011 we have not yet made it into Laurel Ridge Spanish Immersion. We moved to Singapore in January, but we haven't gotten anything forwarded in the mail and our stateside phone number still works and Laurel Ridge still has it. How do I know that you may ask? Well, they called me once two weeks ago in the middle of the night or during school hours there in Virginia because I was the emergency contact for a good friend there. At 3:30 am some lady is trying to get it through my foggy head that one of the kids needs mom and do I have her cell number. Well I might have it, but it's on a slow moving ocean freighter right now. If the sweet girl can wait three more weeks I can get it to the poor secretary who likely thought I was an idiot. It is actually all pretty funny now that I'm coherent, but the answer to your question is "No." We are still on the wait list. We have never heard if we moved up from slot #7 on the list, but I never called to ask. Just assumed if it happened they would call. Hope this helps if you check back on my blog. Good luck. I hope your kids number is smaller than 7 or the families are more transient this coming year. The program is a great one and we're sad not to be in it. Instead my kids are now learning Chinese. Never would have thought we'd do that. Angie