Braggin' on Scott

Today was Scott's last day of school at the American School of Milan! Yes, I know he got out really late, but he didn't start school until September 1st. And he had more random days off then I would have thought possible. So it all worked out. In recognition of his completing a year of school in a foreign country, I'm doing a bragging post about him. Do not feel obligated to read it!

The first picture is church not school related. Scott and I successfully completed a year of seminary together! Woo hoo! Two Sundays ago he received his completion certificate. I imagine he'll be the only one in our ward with a seminary certificate in Italian!

I have to say how much I appreciate Scott's willingness to get up and have seminary with me every morning. I'm sure it wasn't always exciting to have a one on one class with his Mom, but he never complained. And we both survived the experience!

Last Tuesday, we went to the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade Awards Ceremony at the school. Here's Scott with the three awards he received. (He didn't wear the fedora to the ceremony, but he did insist on putting it on at home for the picture.)
The first award was for Academic Excellence. This was given to all students with a GPA of over 3.6 (on a 4.0 scale).
Before I talk about his next two awards, bear in mind that the junior class is small. There are only 43 kids in his whole class! But it's still pretty cool that he won these awards.

He received the award for Outstanding 11th Grade Student in Chemistry. We weren't really surprised he got this award. His teacher had told me that Scott seemed to understand the class much better than the other kids and he was always helping kids out.
The third award he received did surprise us all - Outstanding 11th Grade Student in English. He's always done well in English, but we were surprised he was picked for the award. Before his teacher announced who won, she said that the student always liked to debate and challenge ideas. Robert and I knew she was talking about Scott! And we were right!
To top off his pretty successful year in Milan, Scott found out yesterday that he got a 2280 (out of 2400) on the SAT! He got a perfect 800 in Math and a perfect 800 in Reading! We were all pretty excited about that.

Scott has done great this past year. He was probably our best kid to bring to Italy. He easily adapted to life and school here and made some good friends along the way.

Oh, and his true personality has come out over here too. In the yearbook, Scott was picked as "Most Argumentative"! Some things never change!