This past week was a typhoon of change. It was one day after another: Maggie and Nicholas both started at new schools and took new buses.
Nicholas had been going to the Woodland Montessori school near us. We had wanted to move him to Woodland Harbourside from the beginning and an opening came up. Maggie started kindergarten R-2 at the Hong Kong International School (HKIS).
Monday: free day for everyone. Except Katy and I.
Tuesday: Maggie, Katy and I went to HKIS for meet the teacher and after school sign up day. After school sign up was in the morning. Maggie is focused on Girl Scout Daises, swimming and gymnastics. We were invited to lunch by our HKIS host mom. Then off to meet the teacher, Ms McGinnis. She is from New Zealand and we think we will get along great.
Wednesday: First day of school for Nicholas. And first time taking the school bus. So Katy and I took Nicholas down the to school bus. It comes up to the lobby drive up level at 8:10. We put him on and drove with him to the school. He saw all the neat stuff at school and was like "bye bye." His day goes from 8:30 to 10:30 M-W-F. I went to pick him up and meet his teacher Ms Jemma. Again very nice.
Thursday: D DAY. Maggie's first day of R2. Her day starts with a school bus pickup at 7am down on the street level. As you can imagine a gaggle, if ever that word applied to people it does to parents standing around waiting for a school bus, of parents and kids. Maggie's bus came, she had a little hesitation, but got on. Maggie's day ends with the bus drop off at 2:15 or so. She had a great day per her own report.
Friday. D DAY PLUS 1. Niocholas' second day. We decide that maybe he should ride the bus by himself. Well he gets on OK and actually stays OK till it pulls out and leave then starts crying. Katy and I figure we will see on Monday. But when Eva picked him up at 10:30 the only thing she heard was he keeps being reminded to sit down in class. But as my friends at FUMCDC will know, it was hard for me to see him cry.
Later that morning I head to HKIS for new parent orientation. The principal and her staff all gave presentations. It was really nice and there will be a lot of chances for us to get involved.
Oh.....During this whole week, Nicholas on Monday somehow got scared of his shadow and would NOT GO TO SLEEP in his room. Crying, screaming, just..wow. So every night Katy or I would have to rock him to sleep. Thankfully it seemed to pass Friday night. The night we were most worried about was Wednesday nite, so Maggie got a good night's sleep for her first day. Through rocking and rocking we finally got him to sleep at 9:30pm. As Katy said, of all the weeks to pick to have sleep trouble, this was not our first choice. So during the week Katy and I got less and less sleep.
So that was our week. In a strange way after all that, I feel more a part of this place than before.
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