Amber Off To College
Well, after many challenges, Amber is now residing in Orange County, Brea California to be exact. What an adventure! Enough to make a mom grey. It started out like this......
We had anticipated her math grade from her summer class. Her admission to Cal State Fullerton was on hold pending this class. Grades came in and she didn't quite make it. Needed a C or better. So we were hoping that they would let her enroll on a probationary basis while she retook the class.
We were set to fly Thurs. Aug 10, leaving at 2pm at arrive in Santa Ana at 3:30. That would give us time to meet with someone at the school and getting that out of the way so we could use Fri. to secure an apartment. And then it happened, the first glich. There had to be terrorist messing up my plans. Our plane was delayed and we finally landed at 6pm. We picked up our car and I learned that Amber is an expert map reader. So now we launch plan B.
Plan B would be to get to the school early, speak w/her counselor and then off to apartment search. Went to the school Friday morning and learned that there wasn't gona be any chance that they were going to let her attend. They all were very nice about it though. We also found the list posted at the school of people needing a room mate. Took numbers of ones that sounded good, and called them. They of course already found room mates. Time to launch plan C.
Plan C would be to take a transcript to Fullerton College so she could enroll there take the math class, (any others) find an affordable apartment. Well the college wasn't open on Fridays, and out of all the decent, and semi decent looking apartments, there were none available. :(
The clock was ticking....we did find a cute apartment in a gated community, very safe and secure, but very expensive, (just under our current house payment) I was panicking so I put in a call to dad for guidance. He said we have to do it so we did. We called the manager to let them know we were coming in with the required deposits. It was now 5pm and they closed at 6. First stop at Washington Mutual to get the money orders, and it was Friday, so long lines. By the time we got to the front it was 5:40. We were in Fullerton and the apartments were in Brea, a 20 min. drive through town. We put in another call to say please don't close we were on our way...we got there at 6 and they were closed. But as a courtesy they left a contract for us in the drop box. I gave up. We were both drained. This always calls for a shopping trip. Luckily Brea has a great mall. We did a little shopping, ate at California Pizza Kitchen, and went back to our room to regroup. We had hoped at the beginning of this trip we could meet Randy for dinner, but it just couldn't happen on this trip. Sorry Randy
So where are we now???oh plan D. What plan D ended up being we would Fed X the apps along with the deposits. The got the forms Tues. morning and the apartment was ready for her to move in on Friday. Now our luck starts to change. We loaded up the uhaul and left Friday morning at 5am. A LONG DRIVE. Because of traffic, or something, we finally made it just before 2. Got the keys, moved her in, purchased some necessities, oh by the way we had to get her a fridge. It was delivered on Sunday and the door hits the stove when it is open. Saturday morning we headed to Fullerton College and we got lucky here that they were open, and she was able to enroll in her classes.
I left a lot of the adventure out. You'll have to call and ask me how I had to get the electricity turned on while we were driving down I5. (i forgot about this) and about the announcement we heard in our hotel room at 1am that it was now safe to re enter the hotel, and how we'er keeping her cat for her and it has it's own room in our house.
Don't you wish you were a Cheatham so you could have this much fun?
We had anticipated her math grade from her summer class. Her admission to Cal State Fullerton was on hold pending this class. Grades came in and she didn't quite make it. Needed a C or better. So we were hoping that they would let her enroll on a probationary basis while she retook the class.
We were set to fly Thurs. Aug 10, leaving at 2pm at arrive in Santa Ana at 3:30. That would give us time to meet with someone at the school and getting that out of the way so we could use Fri. to secure an apartment. And then it happened, the first glich. There had to be terrorist messing up my plans. Our plane was delayed and we finally landed at 6pm. We picked up our car and I learned that Amber is an expert map reader. So now we launch plan B.
Plan B would be to get to the school early, speak w/her counselor and then off to apartment search. Went to the school Friday morning and learned that there wasn't gona be any chance that they were going to let her attend. They all were very nice about it though. We also found the list posted at the school of people needing a room mate. Took numbers of ones that sounded good, and called them. They of course already found room mates. Time to launch plan C.
Plan C would be to take a transcript to Fullerton College so she could enroll there take the math class, (any others) find an affordable apartment. Well the college wasn't open on Fridays, and out of all the decent, and semi decent looking apartments, there were none available. :(
The clock was ticking....we did find a cute apartment in a gated community, very safe and secure, but very expensive, (just under our current house payment) I was panicking so I put in a call to dad for guidance. He said we have to do it so we did. We called the manager to let them know we were coming in with the required deposits. It was now 5pm and they closed at 6. First stop at Washington Mutual to get the money orders, and it was Friday, so long lines. By the time we got to the front it was 5:40. We were in Fullerton and the apartments were in Brea, a 20 min. drive through town. We put in another call to say please don't close we were on our way...we got there at 6 and they were closed. But as a courtesy they left a contract for us in the drop box. I gave up. We were both drained. This always calls for a shopping trip. Luckily Brea has a great mall. We did a little shopping, ate at California Pizza Kitchen, and went back to our room to regroup. We had hoped at the beginning of this trip we could meet Randy for dinner, but it just couldn't happen on this trip. Sorry Randy
So where are we now???oh plan D. What plan D ended up being we would Fed X the apps along with the deposits. The got the forms Tues. morning and the apartment was ready for her to move in on Friday. Now our luck starts to change. We loaded up the uhaul and left Friday morning at 5am. A LONG DRIVE. Because of traffic, or something, we finally made it just before 2. Got the keys, moved her in, purchased some necessities, oh by the way we had to get her a fridge. It was delivered on Sunday and the door hits the stove when it is open. Saturday morning we headed to Fullerton College and we got lucky here that they were open, and she was able to enroll in her classes.
I left a lot of the adventure out. You'll have to call and ask me how I had to get the electricity turned on while we were driving down I5. (i forgot about this) and about the announcement we heard in our hotel room at 1am that it was now safe to re enter the hotel, and how we'er keeping her cat for her and it has it's own room in our house.
Don't you wish you were a Cheatham so you could have this much fun?
posted by Laurie | 7:15 PM
4 Comments:
Oh, my Lord! I'm amazed you found the time to call me - oh yeah, I called you. ;-)
I also can't believe that you had to get her an apartment all by herself in SoCal. Did you have to sign a lease? Can she get a roommate? Does she have a job? How soon will she be able to matriculate to CSF?
Inquiring minds want to know!
It's a good thing you are a calm person. I don't think I could have handled all the confusion. It is also good that you had so many plans. But I don't understand...she couldn't get in because of her math grade, but she is still going to college.You are going to have to post a new blog to answer Randy's questions and mine. Poor thing she is living so far away from home and knows noone.I hope she gets a roommate.
I'm having trouble commenting because it doesn't recognize my username. So I used anonymous. It's me your mother.
This is Karen. I guess I'm anonymous also. I just don't know what too say. I guess I'm just glad I not doing all that. Just getting Nick started in High School is enough. I agree about you having to post another blog to fill in the blank of the first, like you heard an announcement that it was okay to go back into the hotel while you were in your room? I will be checking often to find out how Amber is doing.
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