Jazzmin's Basketball Playoffs.

Saturday Jazzmin had her first "play off" game in basketball. Oddly enough - even though her team lost a majority of their games, they are the winningest team in their division.

It was a good game - even better is the fact that they won by 10 points. They were in the lead the entire game. The other team had issues getting the ball to their basket and when they did - the baskets didn't go in.

Her next playoff game is this Friday - thankfully it's not on a Saturday so she doesn't have to miss dance class again. Her grandmother will be taking her to the game on Friday, but I'll be sure to keep you updated on how her team is doing!

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Jazzmin

Jazzmin's last basketball game was this past Saturday. The defense was snoozing on her team and they lost as a result. Her Grandma Simon came to watch - we were surprised she came! Nice of her to come to the last game. It turns out they won enough games to make it to the playoffs. Who knows when that will be - hopefully I get the info. soon. Hard to believe they made it to the playoffs since they lost 80% of their games. Oh well.

Jazzmin started participating in gumdo and she's really enjoying it. She got her very own wooden sword (mukgum) last night while waiting for me to get out of class. She's very excited to use it this Saturday when she has her gumdo class.

I am going to be taking her out of her catholic school starting next year. I don't think that this school is giving her a better education then a moderately performing public school. In fact, the public schools might be a step up from what she has now. I don't have faith in most of the teachers as educators there - it seems like they're just there to collect a pay check. If the public school is comparable to her catholic school and it's problems - at least this way I won't be paying tuition every month for it. I went down to the dept. of ed. enrollment office today to get the ball rolling on this. At first the lady told me that Jazzmin had to be there to enroll. Then she went in to the office and spoke with somebody and I was told all I have to do was have Jazzmin's school fill out the form she gave me and drop it off. And I didn't have to have Jazzmin with me to drop it off. I like 2 of the schools available and the other 2.... not so much. Am really hoping I get the school I want. I will get a letter in the mail in May letting me know which school she got into. Either way - she's guaranteed to get into one of the schools. I had gone down to a charter school yesterday to apply - the school is excellent, but I don't know how I am going to be able to pick her up from there even if they have an after school program. Most places want you to pick kids up at 6-6:30pm and I wouldn't be able to get there until 7pm at the earliest. It's not near any train station - you have to take a bus. So I am not sure if she can go there, but I would like her to.

Well, that's it for now re: my Jazzmin update.
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