Many of my evenings this week has been occupied with driving the kids to school. Last night our eldest attended a career briefing, where nearly 30 speakers from different professional backgrounds gave talks to give a better picture of what career choices are out there. This to help the students make an informed decision when picking up their 'A' level or 'IB' subject choices. Fiz is now inclined to do IB. Selecting the subject combination for IB turned out to be quite difficult. Those taking IB are supposed to take 3 subjects at high level and 3 at standard level. The main thing about IB is if you are good at language subject, this is for you. Fiz also wanted to take a broad choice of subjects and not bogged down to science or art subjects only, which is again another feature of IB.
At one corner, there was a briefing on studying opportunities in the US. Was quite interesting. Looking at our photo archieve, saw this one taken at the twin towers back in 1998, when the kids were still small. The tower has long gone by a regrettable tragic event and replaced by Ground Zero. Studying in the US definitely has a great appeal. But going for holiday over there is even better. But flights crossing the pond are still not cheap even though oil price has gone rock bottom. Some Airlines apparently do future buying of fuel. This was a prevalent practice when there was fear of oil supply when the oil price was high last year. So they are now stuck paying higher oil price even though the current price is cheaper. And so they are not able to pass any savings to customers.
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