most were having hangover from the holidays and january 2 was a friday, so you’d expect people to just take the extra day off eh? well, not us. january 2 was jan’s first day in school and the whole family trooped to the new school at 7:30am. in our previous life (until last year), we would still be asleep at this hour!

except for a few big yawns, the day couldn’t have gone better. jan was happy to be going to school and seemed very relaxed. it definitely helped that we enrolled him in a getting-ready-for-school program that was held in the school premises. it was like an orientation program, a taste of what “big” school is like. he was able to meet some of his classmates already and the school premises were already very familiar to him. so when the big day came, there was no trace of anxiety whatsoever. whenever we would see him from a distance, he would be chatting up someone, smiling and laughing. he once spotted me during recess and gave me the thumbs up sign, assuring me he’s ok and everything’s alright. he just had cookies and his water bottle for recess because we thought the first day will end after the recess, but when we figured out they were resuming activities until 1:45pm, hubby handed him some money to buy additional food from the canteen. his school buddy, a boy from the third grade, helped him buy his food: a spicy noodle soup from the indian food stall, haha! during dismissal, he boarded the schoolbus without any angst. hubby was there to make sure he got on the right bus (which he manged to do on his own anyway) and i went home to greet him at the end of his bus ride. as usual, he was chatting up his bus pals, and was still bubbly, considering he hasn’t had lunch yet and it was already 2:30pm!

it was a great start, the best any parent could wish for. i hope it’s a harbinger of what’s to come.

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