Wednesday was the kids' first day back to ISB, and so far it's been a successful year!! Two days down, and lots to go.
Evie started grade 2, and her teacher, Ms. Giles, happens to be good friends with my high school friend Ellen Claessens. How weird is that? Not too weird, actually, when you know that Ellen is an international school teacher (in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), and the international school world is almost as small as the LDS foreign service world. We actually know three people here (Ms. Giles and two elementary school counselors) who worked with Ellen in Dar.
Evie has been pretty confident about school this year (once we did the walk from bus drop-off to new classroom a couple of times). I'm so glad we put her and Johnny in school when we got here, even though there were only five weeks left in the academic year. Evie certainly does NOT feel like a new kid, and she's been busily showing newcomers in her class the elementary school ropes. Grade 2 perks include being allowed to buy popcorn at the booster hut on Fridays AND getting to check out 10 books from the library. Ten books!
Notice anything different about Johnny?
That's right! Johnny graduates to the green shirts this year. Middle school! He's definitely had some anxiety about the change, mainly having to do with finding classrooms and figuring out his schedule. It was disappointing for him to learn that middle school has no recess -- only breaks. So sad. On the up side, he now gets to eat at the MS/HS cafeteria, where the options are apparently endless, AND he can buy popcorn, go to the booster hut, the bookstore, the smoothie stand, etc. whenever he wants. I see a financial planning lesson in our near future.
Johnny has been lucky to make some good friends pretty quickly, and he was happy to find that some of them are in his classes. Another MS perk, one that Mom is having some anxiety over, is that he'll be issued his own laptop. Woot! (Ack!)
Sometimes these two act like they like each other ...
Bus shot on the first day! This is actually the wrong bus, but that got sorted out pretty quickly. The bus system here is bizarre. Our neighborhood has about five different buses coming, and for some reason there are about three different buses coming down our little street of exactly six houses. What?!? I don't get it, and neither did anyone else in the neighborhood on Day 1. Lucky for us, all those buses are eventually headed to the same place.
Here's to a great year!
Evie started grade 2, and her teacher, Ms. Giles, happens to be good friends with my high school friend Ellen Claessens. How weird is that? Not too weird, actually, when you know that Ellen is an international school teacher (in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), and the international school world is almost as small as the LDS foreign service world. We actually know three people here (Ms. Giles and two elementary school counselors) who worked with Ellen in Dar.
Evie has been pretty confident about school this year (once we did the walk from bus drop-off to new classroom a couple of times). I'm so glad we put her and Johnny in school when we got here, even though there were only five weeks left in the academic year. Evie certainly does NOT feel like a new kid, and she's been busily showing newcomers in her class the elementary school ropes. Grade 2 perks include being allowed to buy popcorn at the booster hut on Fridays AND getting to check out 10 books from the library. Ten books!
Notice anything different about Johnny?
That's right! Johnny graduates to the green shirts this year. Middle school! He's definitely had some anxiety about the change, mainly having to do with finding classrooms and figuring out his schedule. It was disappointing for him to learn that middle school has no recess -- only breaks. So sad. On the up side, he now gets to eat at the MS/HS cafeteria, where the options are apparently endless, AND he can buy popcorn, go to the booster hut, the bookstore, the smoothie stand, etc. whenever he wants. I see a financial planning lesson in our near future.
Johnny has been lucky to make some good friends pretty quickly, and he was happy to find that some of them are in his classes. Another MS perk, one that Mom is having some anxiety over, is that he'll be issued his own laptop. Woot! (Ack!)
Sometimes these two act like they like each other ...
Bus shot on the first day! This is actually the wrong bus, but that got sorted out pretty quickly. The bus system here is bizarre. Our neighborhood has about five different buses coming, and for some reason there are about three different buses coming down our little street of exactly six houses. What?!? I don't get it, and neither did anyone else in the neighborhood on Day 1. Lucky for us, all those buses are eventually headed to the same place.
Here's to a great year!
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