How bout some captions. Clockwise:
"Preschool student & Grad student"
"Classic front-step 1st day of school photo - We have 98 front steps"
"Preschool ID badge"
"Thanks Drewbs for taking our pic!"
Done with captions. Check out the school:
Preschool began on Thursday. Just like last spring, 艾泰德＊ is in class 8am - 11:30am Monday through Friday. He eats (2nd) breakfast and lunch at school. It takes us about ten minutes to walk there from our home. Today he did fine! 艾泰德's class has 37 students and three, sometimes four, teachers. The school is excellent; I am so impressed. No wonder it's pretty expensive. Gah. But the TREES! Isn't the schoolyard incredible?
Anyway, If I ever move back to the States, I'm going to HUG all the non-English speaking parents of students.
And why...
Two days before school started Titus, Mike and I went to a class orientation meeting. Not only was I the only guardian with two kids there, I was the only non-Chinese, the youngest mom and definitely the most confused. It's really humbling not being able to understand all that your kiddo's preschool teacher is saying, even simple instructions. We played a game resembling 'Simon says' ... wow. I made really good use of my peripheral vision, mimicking the parents and kids around me because I was clueless!
After the meeting all the guardians were asked to fill out a basic questionnaire about their child's abilities. To what extent can he use the toilet by himself? To what extend can he feed himself lunch? etc. This went ok, but when I arrived at the section "Please write a paragraph describing your child's 1) temperament and 2) hobbies" I was doomed. Then there was a behavior checklist that left me entirely bemused. The kind teacher had to read it aloud to me.
As I was saying, very humbling.
As I was saying, very humbling.
And pretty amusing!
So you can see why my mind is flashing back to high school, recalling Jose's parents cowering in the corner at school events. Mr. & Mrs. Garcia, now I understand!!!
＊艾泰德 Ai Tai-de = Titus
What neat pictures! How do they walk between the beds?! Why do they all have such simular backpacks? Thanks for your fun post and perspective! 96 steps. Oy.
ReplyDeletehey Jen, there are aisles allowing just enough access to each bed. the school issues backpacks to all the kids, kind of like school uniforms.
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