One month in, with the admissions process ancient history, I am happy to report that the kids are all enjoying their respective schools. Tala's school, a humongous combined middle and high school had a wonderful performance today called "Taste of Asia". Her school really values the arts so they decided to suspend all required classes for Year 7 students (her year) for two days and instead teach all the students about various aspects of Asian dance, stories, music, art and drama. After two days of intense instruction and engagement, the students put on an hour's worth of performances in all these areas from China, Indonesia, and India. It was really an incredible statement of the value of arts education.
Noah and Nissa all of lots of friends with a chorus of kids saying hi and bye in the morning arrival and afternoon departure. The boys are a bit rougher here than back home, so Noah has taken some time to figure out the male pecking order and how to play without getting run over. Nissa came home today with a school-wide award for just being a positive influence on the school!
Academically, we were afraid the kids would be a bit behind their local counterpart, but so far it is the opposite. Homework is light to non-existent, which is a pleasant change for us the parents. Noah begs for homework, but instead we just go to the park and work on his football skills.
So all is good with schools and we still don't know how things worked out, but we are glad they did. The picture on this entry is of the playing field that is adjacent to the kids two schools, and a third middle school. About 3,500 kids descend on these three schools each day, which is fun to watch.
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