Today Max is attending his first day at the Artios Academy in Santa Barbara.  Artios is a program that meets once per week providing enrichment activities for homeschoolers.  The topics of art, music, history are taught with a Christian world view.  The local Santa Barbara chapter has decided to start the day with a 15 minute session of announcements, singing, prayer.  This is designed to help the kids get calmed down and ready for instruction so that the first period teacher doesn’t lose instructional time.  They are calling this time ‘chapel’.

Since Max has always been homeschooled, we were trying to describe to him what a ‘school’ day would be like.  Last night we mentioned that he will start off with a ‘chapel’ period.  Once he heard the word chapel, he made the connection.  He said, ‘So this will be like Victory Ranch but without the fun.’

UPDATE : Toby called while I was writing this up and said that Max had settled in nicely.  She had stayed for the first period to help him get accustomed to things.  Whew!