This is a bragging post - fair warning!

My 7th grader loves math.  She is also very good at it.  This year she is doing Algebra I.  It's the first high school math class, and she is able to do it with a couple of 8th graders that are in her class (7th and 8th are combined).  NOVA High School (one of the other English language schools here) sponsored the CEESA Math Competition this year, and QSI sent 2 teams of 3.  The junior team consisted of 9th and 10th graders, and the senior team was 11th and 12th.  Aubree had asked to be on the team when they were first put together, but was told no, because she's only in 7th grade.  3 days before the competition, one of the boys on the junior team was sick and pulled out.  Mr. Vadah, the teacher in charge, went back to the coordinators of the competition and again asked if Aubree could participate - this time letting them know that she was taking the same math class as the freshmen.  This time they said yes.  Aubree was really excited to go!  I think part of it was because it took all of Friday and she was with friends, but also because she loves math!  They competed individually and in teams against schools from Moscow, Kiev, Bucharest, Warsaw, Helsinki, Belgrade, Prague, and Skopje.  It was a little weird, because 85% of the participants were Korean!  The QSI teams didn't win any awards, but Mr. Vadah was impressed with how well Aubree did.  Amongst the kids that competed at the junior level, Aubree scored at the exact middle individually!  We are so proud of her!  Because of how well she did, Mr. Vadah told her that next year for math, they will figure out the schedules so that he can be her geometry teacher, and she can still be in math class with the kids she's been with this year.  We are so blessed to be at a school that is capable of catering so well to our children's needs!