Trenyce goes to school!

Trenyce has her first taste of school life when school reopened on 25th June 07. Her official first day, however, was on the 26th June 07. It was a long story.....

We originally wanted to enrol her in one of the playgroups near our place. Hubby and myself purposely took leave on the day to bring her there. We value education and hope that she can begin well so that she will enjoy the rest of her schooling journey. It was a great disappointment! We sat in the classroom for half of the session and sneaked out, leaving Trenyce inside with the 2 teachers and the rest of the kids. We sat outside discussing about what we seen and decided there and then to withdraw from the school. You could have seen Trenyce's expression when she was sitting at the table. She looked 'bored' really! The teaching aids the teachers used for teaching and the facilities were far from our expectations. The most horrible thing was they made the teacher who was originally teaching chinese to teach english and her english was not that fluent! Then there were kids crying, about two....this chinese turned english teacher had no way to console the little boy and in the end had to resort to carrying the little boy and teached at the same time. Alamak! Can you imagine the boy crying with the teacher shouting at the same time? I wonder if the kids understand what the teacher is saying at all? Most of the times, I saw the kids glazing blankly at the teachers...

The biggest mistake I made was to make the payment even before we started the observation. Thats why in the end it was quite embarassing to tell the teacher that we wanted to withdraw from thew school. This must be the first time she had such encounter, enrolling and withdrawing on the same day....

You must be wondering why I didnt do my research before enrolling her right? The fact is all the window panels of the school were secured with paper from inside that nobody can see what's going on inside. Thats why we decided to take leave and sit in the class to observe the teachers. Anyway, it was really a horrifying experience.

So how did Trenyce manage to go to school? Well, she almost didnt go to any school.

After settled all the necessary with the 1st school, we immediately rushed over to another school from one of our neighbourhood churches. We had wanted to send Trenyce there initially but it was a little inconvenient as it was not within walking distance and we didnt want to inconvenient PILs. In fact, PILs after hearing our description of the 1st school had advised us to drop the schooling idea but I feel very bad if Trenyce didnt go to any school after all the hooha. I have prepared her mentally since deciding to send her to one, telling her almost every other day that she will be going to school soon to meet new friends and learn new things, and she has also been happily telling everyone that she will be going to school. I just cant bear to break her little heart. Hubby agreed with me and after visiting the church school for the second time, we were quite convinced that we wanted to send her there. So in the end, we enrolled her, got her her new school uniform and brought her there on the following day.....and little gal is now happily attending school everyday! The most surprising of all is that the school fees are not very much higher than the 1st school but the facilities and teaching aids are all doubly good!!!

Trenyce in her new school uniform. See she so "beng", put her toy handphone in her pocket. Reaaly think she is away to do some big business eh..hehe

Haha...Gonggong wrote this to remind himself the timing to fetch Trenyce home from school, not realising that he had spelt his granddaughter's name wrongly....kekeke I pray to Lord that Trenyce will be able to learn well and enjoy her first "schoolhood" and that learning will always be a fun and enjoyable thing to her. I also pray that she will learn to share and be patient with her new friends and new teachers. Amen.