Phew! School sorted

Daddy and I took half a day off to take Changunnie to school assessment at an English Kindergarten. It is one of the four kindergarten for a network of English Schools. Whilst there's no guarantee of placement at one of the network's primary school, you do get priority if you attended the network's kindergarten and first language isn't Chinese.

Knowing Changunnie is Ms Opposite Froggie (Chung Gae Goo Ri in Korean, the story goes: little froggie that always says the opposite to what mummy froggie said. When mummy froggie was really sick, mummy froggie told little froggie to bury her in the river, thinking little froggie would do the exact opposite and bury mummy froggie in the mountain, the preferred burial ground. When mummy froggie died, little froggie thought he would do what mummy froggie told him to do for once and buried mummy froggie in the river.... So, when little froggie found out, he became really sad and cried whenever it rained), we didn't say anything about the assessment. We told her that it's a playdates with old friends and new friends at a big playground.

It all went well when she got to the school and she was hanging out with everyone and when she met kids from her pre-school, she ran up to hold their hands. Just when we were very happy with our little scheme, it backfired. Couple of her friends were done with the assessment at an earlier time slot and Changunnie decided that since it was a playdate, she should hang out with everyone instead of going into the classroom. Daddy was at the presentation and I tried everything I could to get Changunnie into the classroom but to no avail. To make it worse, a little boy arrived for a session after Changunnie's. The two got along so well that he too decided to hang out by the sand box! The other mother was more prepared and managed to ask a teacher to come out to check them out for the assessment (I think they have been to other assessments).

When we left, I was very convinced that we had to send couple more applications for other schools. Then the letter arrived on Saturday that Changunnie got in. Phew! One less thing to worry about