Mondays / TABE Testing: Part One

Day 14---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today, Monday, was rather hectic. Usually is. It's called detail day; we clean the whole entire dorm till it shines. We wake up at 6am and get dressed, go to breakfast, and clean like usual. The whole center has to be dressed, ready, and in the meeting room at 7:45am. That's where Monday morning meeting takes place where staff and student leaders make weekly announcements. It usually last about 45 min. Afterwards they call students in groups by trade and they line up A-K and L-Z to get paid (bi-weekly). I got a whopping 4 bucks! (Crappy starting pay) Then we go wherever we're supposed to go from whenever the meetings over to 4pm. When we get out at 4, we have account (like a check in, make sure you're not AWOL) at 4:30, then dinner at 5pm. After we're finished eating we have to be back in our dorms by 6 for SST's (Social Skills Training). At 6:30 we have center wide clean up, and at 7 we have and hour and a half to deep clean our rooms. That entitles sweeping, dusting, mopping, scrubbing the shower and toilet and mirrors, and organizing your closet and drawers. Everything needs to be color coded and separated. I have found that if I just keep my room clean and organized ALL THE TIME then there's really little to do and I have free time (even though we aren't allowed out of the room until room check). - And sorry Mom, if I ever move back in, I'm afraid these habits will not carry over. :)  - Anyways, after room check we have half an hour before we are released, and we are put to work, each girl having a different clean up duty in the dorm. I got dusting (pssh, easy). At 9 we can go outside and have to be back in at 10 for another account, bed time at 10:30. Whew! Doesn't give much breathing room.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We (my ICL brothers, sisters, and I) went to education for the first time today after Monday morning meeting. We took trade placement tests to see where we would be most suited. Of course I scored high on Realistic and Artistic work. So mainly labor, farming, logging, etc/ and singing composing music career. Once we finished that we took placement test to see how educated we were in math and reading. They needed to see which TABE test to give us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm not sure where I placed in math, we don't take that TABE test until tomorrow. But I DID take the reading test, the highest level, and I needed to score 567 to pass... I got 621!!! I am SO excited. I was really nervous because I haven't seriously studied since the 7th grade, almost 4 yrs ago! I'm glad I got that over with. Now I have to do math... YIKES! Not my greatest subject, never has been. It has been a long time and I have forgotten how to do a lot of the handwritten formulas. But hopefully I'll TABE out anyway and I won't have to worry about it anymore.*Sigh* Well I have to log off now. I have 5 minutes till account and even though I'm in the building, if I'm not in the commons room I'll get counted as AWOL. Not good.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll write again tomorrow and tell you how the math test goes. Wish me luck!