I think (hope) it's natural to worry about how your children will do when you take them half way round the world. Will they fit in? Will they make friends? Will they still develop and learn? Mostly out of Maggie, when I ask about preschool, I get a "good" or "fine" to "So how are things going at your school?" So I had a moment today where all my fears were annihilated....at least for the evening.
In the late afternoon, I took Maggie to the apartment pool. She is half swimming have walking on the step and saying the same things over and obver again, "ee, arh, sun, soo," It sounds Chinese but she is so casually saying it as she swims, it surprises me. I swim over and ask her. "Is that Chinese?" She gives me this look like "of course it's Chinese, you do know we live in Hong Kong now." I ask, "Did you learn that at school?" Looking like she is hoping she gets her intelligence from Katy, she kinda puts up with what she considers an obvious answer and says yes. She was counting in chinese from 1 to 10. She then stops and starts teaching me each of the numbers, correcting me as I go.
Moments like this that alay fears are very welcome.
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