DI for short.  Have you heard of it?  It’s a new class elective (new to the girls’ school) that our seventh-grader is taking, and she absolutely LOVES the class!

Here’s the official word on what it is.

This morning, just about the time I was falling into a very deep sleep, Dr. Man-Mom and DD#1 were getting up, as she had to be at school at 6 am, to leave for their DI competition on the other side of San Antonio.   And they won’t get back until around 11 pm this evening.

Oy, she’ll be a barrel of laughs tomorrow!

Anyways, we went to school and watched their team practice this past week.

Dr. Man-Mom said to me, at dinner that night, that he was absolutely clueless as to what he actually saw.

I giggled.

Dr. Man-Mom has a PhD, you see.  He is a logical thinker, a left-brainer, if you will.  DI, on the other hand, is for those who use their right brains most of the time.  Or, to put it as DD#1 said to me, she was too creative to clean her room!

I, too, am pretty much a visual-thinker.  It’s the act, not the process to get there, that’s important to me.

With this class and contest, the kids are given a set of challenges to overcome.  It’s about leadership, creativity, critical thinking and teamwork.  It’s taking what you know and applying it to the challenge, to produce a final outcome – which is a short, 5 minute play. 

As I explained that to Dr. Man-Mom, I told him it was much like the FFA team leadership contests that he competed in when he was in high school.  Except, of course, the manure in FFA is probably not piled as high.