Finally got the funding
As of 3 pm PST yesterday, Stuart OFFICIALLY has EI paying for his tuition.
We are going to be tight for the next year , but who am I to complain about living like students after what we've been living like for the past 5 years?
In a year Stuart will be done school with a diploma from the top ranked video game design program in the country. He plans to graduate at the top of his class, with honours (and I have no doubt he will - he managed to graduate from Computer Engineering Technology with honours and he's passionate about this).
That means . . . . the light at the end of the tunnel this time is NOT a train!!!!
Yay!
The last couple of hoops were torturous - we couldn't get Revenue Canada in Ontario to return our calls and our records haven't been transferred to BC yet, so in the end we called our MP's office. They were WONDERFUL and had someone devote all of her time to it for a day and a half until everything was tied up nicely and he had his funding. I love our local MP's office (the Kemptville MP, on the other hand, can go . . . well, we'll not discuss that - he was a jerk about the situation).
So far we are loving BC and Clinton is doing wonderfully (his anxiety has settled down dramatically now that we have moved and adjusted his meds). Stuart starts school Monday and is really excited about it.
The only one having any problems is me - I'm lonely. As the lone extrovert in the family I'm having a bit of a time with having moved away from all of my close friends. When we lived in Ottawa I missed Nicole and Andrew, but I was living with Brent and Rebecca and could see other friends regularly. Here I have my elderly uncle (who is wonderful) and that's about it. I need to work on it, clearly. I'm joining a women's book club at church and I think I'm going to get active in the SCA again ( my sewing machine and garb got left behind in Ontario so I'm going to need to scrape together the money for a new machine and some fabric - besides, Clinton hasn't fit any of his garb in a year).
So all in all, we're great. We've been total head cases for the past 2 weeks trying to get everything done, but once we got the word we seriously exhaled.
We are going to be tight for the next year , but who am I to complain about living like students after what we've been living like for the past 5 years?
In a year Stuart will be done school with a diploma from the top ranked video game design program in the country. He plans to graduate at the top of his class, with honours (and I have no doubt he will - he managed to graduate from Computer Engineering Technology with honours and he's passionate about this).
That means . . . . the light at the end of the tunnel this time is NOT a train!!!!
Yay!
The last couple of hoops were torturous - we couldn't get Revenue Canada in Ontario to return our calls and our records haven't been transferred to BC yet, so in the end we called our MP's office. They were WONDERFUL and had someone devote all of her time to it for a day and a half until everything was tied up nicely and he had his funding. I love our local MP's office (the Kemptville MP, on the other hand, can go . . . well, we'll not discuss that - he was a jerk about the situation).
So far we are loving BC and Clinton is doing wonderfully (his anxiety has settled down dramatically now that we have moved and adjusted his meds). Stuart starts school Monday and is really excited about it.
The only one having any problems is me - I'm lonely. As the lone extrovert in the family I'm having a bit of a time with having moved away from all of my close friends. When we lived in Ottawa I missed Nicole and Andrew, but I was living with Brent and Rebecca and could see other friends regularly. Here I have my elderly uncle (who is wonderful) and that's about it. I need to work on it, clearly. I'm joining a women's book club at church and I think I'm going to get active in the SCA again ( my sewing machine and garb got left behind in Ontario so I'm going to need to scrape together the money for a new machine and some fabric - besides, Clinton hasn't fit any of his garb in a year).
So all in all, we're great. We've been total head cases for the past 2 weeks trying to get everything done, but once we got the word we seriously exhaled.