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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Daniel starting school

For the past 2-3 months, Daniel has started "school". I brought him to Julia Gabriel playclub and he really loves it. He loves the guy teachers. Yes, how rare is that - not just a male teacher but a preschool level male teacher.



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As time goes by, and my belly becoming bigger, I think it's time to enroll Dan to a school FULL TIME. So I put him on waiting list for nursery 1 at Chiltern House whicih is linked to Julia Gab. Yea, WAITING LIST.... That's Singapore. So oh well, waiting list should mean the school's good right? Then, I was thinking... am I gonna send/pick him from school ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY... EVERYDAY?!??!??! I am a Sabahan! I am not prepared for this!!!! We KK-ians take 5 mins to school/church/shopping/yum cha. This will take 45mins!

I started to freak out, and trying to find out when is my mom's free time and checking if I can help GML (ZX's company) to make use of their driver. Haha! Well I was thinking, since he's on waiting list, he might just start school later after my delivery. Still plenty of time...

Lo and behold, he got accepted and school starts on 28 June. My due date is 30 June...!! Not good. I don't want Dan to feel he's going to school because mommy needs to take care of baby sister, or worse still, mommy is throwing him into a school cuz she wanna spend time with new baby. I tried checking out the schools in JB and to my surprise, there are so many Montessori. In one day of survey, I visited 5 montessoris in JB! Talk about being "kiasu".... but nothing compares to Julia Gab or Chiltern. Either the toilet stinks, the premise very run down, pushy teachers, english lousy, can't control kids, no proper value teaching systems (just seems like babysitting). I brought Dan to a trial lesson and he almost RUINED the entire timetable!

Ah well.... and he said he likes school in Singapore. So, in order for him to adapt well in school and not feel being abandoned, I think I will have to opt for the Causeway (again).