School and Friends

This is your third week at school. Last week was unusual because of a long holiday, so you only had to go for 3 days. You are doing very well, the teachers say you are improving every day and participating more. They also mentioned they have no communication problems with you, so as we suspected, your English is much better than we think. You still say you don’t want to go to school though, every morning (it started on the Friday of the first week) but once you are there, you are fine. You cry a bit when we arrive, and then a minute later you already stopped and started playing with Miss Rachel or your friends. You like Miss Nicole, who is the assistant teacher a lot too. When I pick you up every day you cry when you see me, and say “Mommy, mommy” and ask me to hold you and take you home, says goodbye to everybody and “see you tomorrow”. Daddy went to pick you up yesterday and you didn’t cry when you saw him, I wonder why!

Today when I was dropping you off your friend JoJo came and gave you a hug right away, while Kenya and Shiaman (not sure how to spell her name, your little Korean friend who started about the same time as you) were running to the playground gate to open it for you, calling your name. Miss Rachel said they were waiting for you. I guess they are your first “close friends”.